@mattly I used that phrase a-lot in 2023. I used it to justify my continued friendship with people who supported the most vile of persons to become the president of our country. Said person then proceeded to destroy every half infrastructure and turned this thing that used to pretend that it was a country -- into a dead country.

Now, I have come to realise that they supported him because they were told that they would be fixed into positions where the failings of his government would not touch them.

I thought them fools (which they remain, as the promises they were made stayed promises), but they were just monsters.