I think that every decision that we all make has unintended consequences. And I think that we all have rationalizations that make the motivations of our decisions seem like the only reasonable choice a person could make. and we all have layers of hidden agendas that lie behind our decisions... many of those agendas we hide from even ourselves.

It strains credulity to expect that a political decision involving lots of people will be free of the above dynamics which affect each of us individually.

"It's not a lie if you believe it." -- George Costanza
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. --Bertrand Russel