I've always been a believer that smart people can come to very different conclusions on how to do things. Just look at the number of people who fall within the

I've always been a believer that smart people can come to very different conclusions on how to do things. Just look at the number of people who fall within the Alan Kay camp of mutable state vs those who like Haskell. Look at those who think Lisp should have ruled the world versus those who believe Prolog just never had a fair shake. There's a bunch of issues that reasonable people can reasonably disagree on. Granted when it comes to politics I believe all motivation is hidden because ture radicals can't win the vote by coming out and telling people they plan a revolution. They have to claim to be only slightly off center, then continually reframe the issue till people begin to see things their way. Guantanamo Bay was a great example. If you'd asked Congress "do you want to authorize a secret camp to torture dissidents just offshore from the continental USA?" then they would have said no. Yet now that the camp exists, the question has been shifted to "Do you want to close our black-ops torture camp, and move all those people with grievances (legitimate or not) against us to your home state's prison system?" Now even Congressmen who hate torture feel unwilling to go down in history as the one who let 'terrorists' into gen-pop, even if in fact our prison system is perfectly capable of handling dangerous individuals (like all the homegrown terrorists we have).