Never assume incompetence
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Never assume incompetence. Worth repeating. I include in this the presidency of Biden who is a hard minded bigot who has sold his soul to the satanic forced of the WEF, the CCP, and other Globalists.
In my life experience, "Never assume competence" seems to work better.
Where large, country or global scale conspiracies are concerned, my attitude is that the likely explanation is still incompetence against a background of cultural drift, but IF/WHEN there is a conspiracy, it will be much more malevolent and evil than you could possibly have imagined. Nazi Germany is a classic case study.