Can Politics Exist Without Hypocrisy?

Douglas Ridley
10 min readOct 18, 2020

Or is Hypocrisy the Indispensable Law of Public Life?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with politics.

The Potential of Politics

I love democratic politics because it has such incredible potential. It is the one area of life where (at least in theory) we can work as equals.

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Douglas Ridley

I write about politics and policy. The goal is to promote a more informed, thoughtful, and civil dialogue on how we can create a politics that solves problems.