Treasons of the heart.(political cause)

The modern age is clogged with--or more descriptively, cursed by--political causes. Every such cause trumpets peaceful and progressive virtues but, in practice, each is a turbulence of violence. The worst of them--Communism, Nazism, Islamism--provide the ideological framework for mass murder. With whatever messianic fervor a political cause is promoted, at its core is the defense of some partisan interest, usually religious or national. Purportedly universal causes--pacifism, human rights, ecological issues--have a similar tendency to define themselves as moral absolutes that legitimize aggression. And as that old rake Norman Douglas was the first to point out, somebody ...