Political Persuasion- how did you get there?

[innerSpaceman]

Just to be clear, I speak for no one in the Democratic Party when I personally take the moral high ground.

And I don't buy Alex's theory that people who do things with evil outcomes rarely have evil intent. Bah on that. Prudence was right about almost all political motivation (and likely most human motivation) ... summed up nicely by "what's in it for me?"

Whether one is too ignorant to look past what's in it for me is no excuse for not immediately recognizing that such a philosophy is likely to cause harm to everyone who isn't you.

Sure, there's a big enough gray zone where many paths leading to evil outcomes did not have evil motives. But I think that zone is relatively slim when compared with the vast realm of political and human motivation.