do you protest?

“Listen, here’s the thing about politics: It’s not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.”
--Tony Kushner

i'd have said it without the word progressive, but hey.
people like Tony like to express their moral purity and and their ethics by defining themselves against people's approach to politics as much as people, perhaps more often 'progressives', like to define themselves against other people's politics.

thanks to livejournal and zoje george for the quote.