Allow me to posit a possibility.
THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY TO BE MADE in the profession of traitorship/traitorhood. Treason is the most popular dish there is on the the social menu. From .low to high. From peon peasant water carrier to head of a country. Treason is in. Traitorship/traitorship has been made an honorable vocation. It's the money honey. It's the powertrip. It's the revenge/retaliation/attacking your enemies and making them pay for not kissing your a**. It's all of that and more.
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