I don't mean to sound conspiratorial but I get the impression that when someone becomes president their is a manner by which the intelligence community implicitly says "Ok , you're the president now...here's how the world really fucking works".
The end result being a host of very convincing cultural assumptions that are hard to argue with if you're on the inside and driving the wheel.
Actually, as a candidate, at some point they start getting read in on national security matters, so this "indoctrination" begins even before the election.
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I don't mean to sound conspiratorial but I get the impression that when someone becomes president their is a manner by which the intelligence community implicitly says "Ok , you're the president now...here's how the world really fucking works".
The end result being a host of very convincing cultural assumptions that are hard to argue with if you're on the inside and driving the wheel.
Actually, as a candidate, at some point they start getting read in on national security matters, so this "indoctrination" begins even before the election.