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Being Healers rather than Dividers

In our presently polarized country, heated rhetoric flies in both directions and the charges and counter charges become indistinguishable. Here’s today’s riddle.  Who is the author of the paragraph below which appeared in a major newspaper yesterday? And what group is being described?

But every group … ends up on the losing side of policy disputes, somewhere along the way; that’s democracy. The question is what happens next. Normal people take it in stride; even if they’re angry and bitter over political setbacks, they don’t cry persecution, compare their critics to Nazis and insist that the world revolves around their hurt feelings. But the _____ are different from you and me.

Try filling in the blank with “Moral Monday protesters”, “the rich”, “Obamacare critics”, or other possibilities you might think of. Is there anything to be learned from this exercise?