This is not as trivial as it sounds.
4 years ago
It’s pretty easy to have views on politics. The principles one espouses seldom hold together in the tough questions however.
Consistency isn’t an axiomatic virtue, except that unless you know why a principle holds in one case but is not compelling in another, you don’t really have principled views but rather emotional preferences that you are whitewashing with a false rationalisation.
That “why”, binding inconsistent and irreconcilable political preferences and adjudicating their clashes, is itself either principled or emotional.
As I said, more work than it might seem.
