Political Power Doesn't Begin or End with a Ballot Box.

Talking to conservatives about climate change: these are the ostensibly respectable people you meet in the comment section below the glowing image of Jacob Rees-Mogg.

I think this is a slightly important notion: that people, for political reasons, make excuses without even understanding what it is they're making excuses for, "from a position of blithe ignorance, not knowing what evils they're making excuses for." 

And yes, I do realize I've eschewed the opportunity to say, "Political Power NEITHER Begins NOR Ends with a Ballot Box". ;-) I use that pattern of neither/nor entirely too often in the book, you know.