> Lots of people believe this in every side of every ideological conflict, and it's easy to do so since very few people understand others' beliefs really; they

> Lots of people believe this in every side of every ideological conflict, and it's easy to do so since very few people understand others' beliefs really; they just understand simplified caricatures of those beliefs. Surely this is true. However, at the same time, many people's beliefs actually are simplified caricatures of what the doctrine they associate themselves with actually meant them to believe.