Ever meet someone who is into something to a degree that goes wildly beyond the inherent satisfaction they could possibly derive from the activity and comes overwhelmingly from competitively wanting to win? Well...lots of politicians don't have anything resembling a conviction.
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Like, yes, you can say the contemporary
@GOP has a simple conviction: greed. (They certainly don't have conservative principles, other than ritualistic ones.) But, do you really think people like@senatemajldr or@LindseyGrahamSC don't just get off on the exercise of power?)1 reply 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread
I certainly don't mean this as an excuse (they're pretty shit human beings) and I'm not sure it matters, but "they're doing it because they are evil" and "they are doing it because of a compulsion to win that doesn't allow the perception of costs" are different things.
10:45 AM - 25 Sep 2019
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