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In Reply to: Your choice of hypocrisy posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on January 31, 19100 at 13:20:34:

: Pothead Gore or cokefiend Bush, both for the War on Drugs, your choice of hypocrisy.

Piper: Aren't they just playing Machiavelian politics:

"But it is necessary...to be a great feigner and dissembler; and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived...It is not necessary therefore for a prince to have all the above mentioned qualities [the conventional virtues], but it is very necessary to seem to have them".
(From 'the Prince')

Did you expect anything different?

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