Perhaps this is why, each side tends to cherry-pick truth...using select portions of it, in an attempt to leverage their advantage. Truth used for advantage is, at the very least, misguided; but, also, actually much worse on many different levels.
Truth is innately not selective—it is interested in the whole. It is interested in how things work out for everyone, not just a few.
When votes are no longer connected to words like the above which define what rightness is (or should be), we have a clearer view of what happens when the ends and the means are no longer the same thing. When votes become primarily about power and control — rather than inclusion, reconciliation, and the wholeness of all — we see the distinction in its more stark political forms.
You can't really cherry-pick truth; because when you do, all you're really doing is moving away from it.
