nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t nostr:npub1w3pqn9v66wkfg26scz03z5r04hu3yh4pufks2q34jh0kfszvynnq68pa78 I'd asked Bill Binney at a Snowden panel about a similar phenomenon - I'd mentioned that I'd started to lose my understanding of the left when Feinstein voted for the Iraq War and Pelosi forced democratic support of the Patriot Act, and I asked why these folks who allegedly had radically different beliefs were doing this - were they owned?

And he chuckled and just said something about how actually, he thought they just liked power.

I think about that a lot.