re: #290 Salamantis

It has often been opined that the party in power gets contemptuous, while the party out of power goes insane.

That’s surely part of it. I also think there’s a rather large pool of crazy folks who enjoy being anti and don’t involve themselves much in the political process, and their motivation isn’t any kind of party loyalty but the desire to see themselves as possessing secret knowledge of how the world really works and the dark forces moving behind the scenes. If they were saner they’d be able to compartmentalize it and just read spy novels instead of trying to live in them.