Reply #13: Stupid is non-threatening to Stupid...& realistically, Stupid tends to be resentful of Intelligent

[Echo In Light]

... or, to frame it another way, immoral tends to find the moral contemptible, and so will denounce a moral position as being the opposite of what it actually is and represents, while the the immoral quickly adopt the surface trappings & rhetoric of the moral they simultaneously disavow.

The real problem with this is that for people who don't spend any time focusing on such matters, or, for those deeply entrenched in the 'game' of it, one isn't discernible from the other. The whole system is accepted and perpetuated since for so many, there's scant difference between parody and authenticity.