Honestly, having known a lot of them…I think they do. Or at least they think they do. They aren’t very self-reflective. They don’t have the cognitive dissonance about it.
At least at the local level. The people who are actually in elected office definitely don’t, that’s true.
When the people make a huge gigantic deal about it, a lot; you have to point it out at every opportunity.
But they don’t care. They don’t mean the words they’re saying.
Honestly, having known a lot of them…I think they do. Or at least they think they do. They aren’t very self-reflective. They don’t have the cognitive dissonance about it.
At least at the local level. The people who are actually in elected office definitely don’t, that’s true.