Based on some old posts of Monty's I started listening to some discussions on Hannah Arendt and her notion of the 'Banality of Evil'.
Most men do not commit to evil actions because they are sociopaths, they simply do it to get ahead in the system which they operate in. The banality comes from the common ignorance we all share of turning the blinders on to what the outcome is of the overall system, only focusing on what our relative position is within that system.
This is what I think is going on with many agents in Trump's administration and the GOP. It's a shame that we as a nation were in a position to learn this lesson and internalize it, but didn't; I guess when faced with such atrocity it is easier to think of such things as somehow born in a culture wholly different from our own so that we can rest easier at night. Another common ignorance that leaves many in the US today wondering how we find White Nationalists marching in Charleston...
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