He said he and his family had left the town 14 months ago, because they did not like the rebel factions.
And Ichiro Ozawa, the rebels' behind-the-scenes leader, is a political fixer much like the faction heads who have pulled the political strings for the past four decades.
Perhaps that viewer – like the faction of the right wing that is suddenly, violently alarmed that trans people may be sharing their bathrooms – does not understand that LGBT people have always been a part of the media landscape, not to mention their churches, their schools and their families.
Those who don't fit clearly into any of the factions -- like Tris -- are called Divergent, and that diagnosis makes them a danger to society.
So from a Christian perspective, it seems like the very existence of the factions is a response to original sin, or the idea that humans are created with an innate tendency to push themselves away from the hopes God has for them and the world.
Like Putin, the faction rose to victory from nowhere, without ever pausing to detail its political intentions.
Others say the frequent confrontations between Islamists and liberals are healthy, like those between all the factions and currents represented in the square.
The June vote was a totemic gesture in line with the resting (or perhaps restive) disposition of the faction that likes to control the play in the Liberal party of 2018.
It is hard to find anyone who believes that the different currents within the Republican Party will lead to anything like the battling factions that characterized the old one-party Democratic rule.
If they are not careful, the sceptics may end up looking like the squabbling factions in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (the Judean People's Front, the People's Front of Judea, and so forth).Until the launch of New Europe, the most prominent of the larger Eurosceptic groups was "Business for Sterling", a lobby group dedicated to fighting the notion that British business wants the euro.
