Maybe two things. Have you spent significant time as an outsider in a way that you couldn’t change and wasn’t going to change ? Being on the incontrovertible receiving end can make it clearer that the motives are that of being human beings. This is what human beings do.

And religion, though not so important for lots, is still really important to other lots. I would see the blind spot in underestimating the power of religion in the 21st century.

The US naval shipbuilding has been reduced to like … two yards … Bremerton and Baltimore, i think ?

term limits is a start

Or screwed everyone over too little; if he had screwed everyone for ten billion he would be heralded as a genius.