Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 07, 1995
Transcript:
Calvin: I'm writing a fund-raiser letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they're systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It's a war of values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight! Hobbes: How cynically unconstructive. Calvin: Enmity sells.
This is what politics is all about. Attacking your opponent, who cares about what your values are so long as your opponent’s seem like they’re worse?