Manichean

He thought that God was here to -- maybe to lead the forces of good against the forces of evil, a kind of manichean view that the world is divided between good and evil. ❋ Unknown (2004)

To put it even more simply, Brezinski depicts the "manichean" view of neocons as "old" and his own bitterly cynical and corrupt accommodation with obvious evil as "young." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whether that’s because conservatives are more susceptible than liberals to the kind of manichean narrative that Rush spins, or whether radio networks don’t want progressive radio to succeed, or whether Rush is just a genius at radio, who knows? ❋ Unknown (2010)

His use of the word "evil" drew scads of controversy and, for his critics, typified the manichean view Bush took on foreign policy. ❋ Chris Cillizza (2011)

Seems to me STORMy is just projecting his own manichean perspective onto the President, with no supporting evidence behind his belief. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As Jonathan Chait writes in his review of the new book by the American Enterprise Institute's Arthur Brooks, while conservatives want to believe they're a part of some manichean struggle between the forces of capitalism and statism, conservatives and liberals are actually both seeking some degree of balance between market and state. ❋ Adam Serwer (2010)

Mathhew, however, tends to get all manichean when people who have differeng political views lie, because he is convinced that they are evil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Republican dogmatic manichean cultural warriors ruthlessly purged their Pragmatists with a fervor worthy of Mao years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Absolutely true, but at least our dogmatic manichean cultural warriors at least still talk to us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

People are complicated and manichean thinking is for Republicans and Sith lords. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Despite every effort of Republican officials in and out of Washington to present the fight over the Obama budget as a manichean choice between socialism and Americanism, 27 percent of self-identified Republicans approve of Obama's budget priorities, and about the same percentage explicitly favor Obama's approach to the economy over that of congressional Republicans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It developed not into an open ended inquiry into the nature and causes of imagery, but a manichean struggle between the computational pictorialism championed by Kosslyn and his supporters, and the computational description theory still most ably and enthusiastically represented by Pylyshyn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bush and Cheney viewed themselves in a manichean struggle with the forces arrayed against them, a list that includes not jihadists but the federal bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, reality itself! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since exactly when did conservatives start worrying that a candidate's approach to issues was too simplistic, or too binary, or too manichean, or too undiversified, or too "black and white" ...? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I trust that similar manifestations of this manichean idiocy on the right are obvious. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is this some kind of mayan manichean splinter-cult? ❋ Unknown (2007)

For a Conservative, the equivocating, hesitant responses of the Liberal side were everything we dislike -- whereas I'm sure for a liberal person, the manichean positions of the Conservative candidate irritated them just as much. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The former is manichean and the latter conciliatory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Perhaps it's because I found it surprisingly manichean in it's politics? ❋ Unknown (2008)

My society polices its boundaries with more and more self-destructive manichean violence now that its boundaries are exposed not as naturally or supernaturally ordained but organized through various sorts of coercion by some members of the society to benefit themselves and disadvantage others. ❋ Unknown (2008)