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by et-al 3322 days ago
As a tangent, this also reminds me of what an NYTimes op-ed columnist wrote about the current administration:

> Truth be told, the incessant lying by this president and the elaborate apparatus he has built in the White House to bend reality to meet those lies means that nothing they say is to be believed anyway, but this is of a different nature. This says to America: I’m going to tell you a lie that is so outrageous that you will want to believe that some part of it is true, to preserve your faith in truth, democracy and mankind.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/opinion/trump-letter-come...

No one wants to believe they made a bad decision because like you said, they want to be doers of good.