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The Politics of Cynicism
I think that, you know, you've all mixed this point that it turns out that cynicism is actually very hard to sustain for some people. And so it can't purely be that the rank and file are grifters and con men who think principles are for suckers. I see that a thousand times a day with just normal regular churchgoing evangelicals who go through the exact same path. It doesn't stay with Well, this is bad, but it's better than the alternative. You ultimately have to have some way of saying what I'm doing is good.