One side – let’s call them the #pragmatists – view #politics purely in terms of #policies enacted and material change on the ground. The other – let’s call them the #idealists – see a role for demonstrating their principles and modelling them in public. It is a debate that has simmered for centuries, and yet seems to catch each new #politicalgeneration unawares."

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6399

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