Re: Idealism and hypocrisy.
Left or right, this article (doesn't say anything new about Star Trek), but towards the end, it boiled it all down to idealism and hypocrisy.
http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa090601.htm
IOW, when you have hypocrisy, idealism goes out the window. If it has to be said, that applies to tyrants as well.
