[InDubioProRubio]

Everyone that tells him/herself a story, can use that story to justify crime. Defender of the underdogs. Saviour of the home-country from the foreign hordes. In every story, there is idealisation and demonisation, a giving up of complexity and the moral horror justifications of fairy tales.

[bjornsing]

Perhaps. But it takes a lot of story telling to be able to spend your days voting for higher taxes on law-abiding citizens, and your nights helping the worst in society evade those taxes…