Caption: Christopher Hitchens from the Randi Foundation The Amazing Meeting 2007 by José Ramírez. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Christopher Hitchens used to bristle at complaints about the “politics of division”.
The English journalist and author would point out that politics is divided by its very definition.
The late polemicist was not without a point.
People will inevitably have differing opinions about how society should be run and how the laws of the land are made.
Invariably (unless they live under a dictatorship) they will challenge each other’s views. They will have disagreements. Sometimes these disagreements will become arguments.
Those with similar ideas about how the world should be run will form groups to advocate for what they believe in and to oppose that which they do not.