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I wonder if there's a sort of buoyancy a government achieves once its extensive corruption has become blatant to absolutely everyone. Inability to believe, think about, report on the whole extent of the wrongs done leads to ignoring them, or seeing them as a grassroots inevitability,--or to filtering out the noise of all other complaints while contemplating one, and thereby getting used to a one-crime model. And surely, in the present case, avoiding a sense of personal complicity plays a role: if you believed Bush, voted for Bush, supported the war, and an upheaval suddenly reveals those to have been stupid decisions, you may feel condemnation of that boatload of bloated, fatuous moral insects to be inextricable from self-condemnation. And for the zillionth time a pair of eyes closes for a while, in the hope that the world will be different on their reopening.