The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
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"...all mass movements strive to impose a fact proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. And, that that faith becomes the things the fanatic declines to see. He avers how startling it is to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible, and that faith manifests itself not in moving mountains, but in not seeing mountains move."
- Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
I am also reminded in reading some of George Washington's speeches today how much our Founding Fathers recoiled against the groupthink of party politics.
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