# Best Doper quote you wish you had said **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-doper-quote-you-wish-you-had-said/564533 "2010-12-17T17:54:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-doper-quote-you-wish-you-had-said/564533/15 "2010-12-20T04:26:23Z")
A lot of Dopers have said a lot of good things. For some reason, this really stood out. It’s not profound per se, but is an apt and extraordinarily succinct way of describing one of the great tragedies of people’s approach to politics: > [@Al Gore lied every day in 2000?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/al-gore-lied-every-day-in-2000/553963/5): > > There are far too many people (on both sides) for whom politics does not consist of discussion of government and law an economics, but is instead a comic book with good guys and bad guys. ETA: The why I wish I said it bit is because I actually have (even with credit). It’s a great lead-in for diffusing a discussion that could get out of hand. Not as a preamble for a topic, of course, but more for general conversation about politics and what’s going on. It can take people off a reflexively defensive starting point and avoids instant confrontation and assumption that whatever comes next is overly simplistic or far from moderate. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-doper-quote-you-wish-you-had-said/564533)._