Eugine_Nier comments on Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? - Less Wrong
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The only part I would leave out of bgaesop's paragraph is the "not because he actually believed that that was what he was doing". All of the previous stuff fits fine when both the leader and the intended audience are sincere homo-hypocrites. That is why he is doing it (or equivalently the fact that they do it so well is what made them the leaders). What they believe about the matter can be orthogonal.
Careful about the fundamental attribution error:
I'm sincere in my beliefs; they're sincere homo-hypocrites.
The warning does not appear relevant. The observation I made is that the description can apply regardless of the specific beliefs of the humans in question. It speaks to the general outcome of the political incentives.