(this is drunken blathering, nothing of consequence is said past this point)
This is, actually, something that's become a pretty core belief for me. Since waking up from the conservative idiocy I was raised within I mean.
The idea being that no grand atrocities were directed by lazy people. Related is my argument for the value of uncertainty, a person who isn't quite sure that they already understand everything important.
(and I'm too drunk to tell if this comment is at all relevant to the context I'm posting it in...)
I know I'm not getting the metaphor here because to me, this looks like Republicans and Democrats working together to impale fascism using the power societies gain when wielding the "stake" of communism??