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Robert Wyatt

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

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Robert Wyatt is saying that just as love can make people overlook flaws, his political beliefs have also been influenced by personal feelings rather than objective facts. He acknowledges that both ideas and people can inspire strong, subjective attachments, and he chooses to stay true to those personal experiences.

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