Reply #35: Don Rumsfeld used to be all about social

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welfare when he was in the Nixon White House, and he was against the Vietnam war. Nixon didn't trust him because he felt Rumsfeld wasn't really "on the team."

I do think, though,that once they have sold their souls, they work very hard to persuade themselves that they are doing what they do out of conviction. Most people don't want to think of themselves as evil, so when they do evil things they have to find a way to interepret what they do as being good or at least wise and necessary.

But I also think that one reason such people always seem so angry is that repressing their better nature and doing things they know deep down to be evil takes a real psychological toll. It might even be the reason why so many of them seem borderline insane--or all the way over the border in some cases.