> These are pretty startling. I can wrap my head around all this now, but two years ago was not thinking like that at all! Thats why the username is GetCynical. People not used to being cynical dismiss the worst outcomes because "why blame malice when its easier to blame ignorance and incompetence?" Some of us realize how easy that makes it to *disguise* malice as incompetence. Once is accident. Twice is incompetence or coincidence. Three times is malice. And thats all we see from western nations, especially the federal government here in the u.s.