>Thus he was thrown under the bus to deflect attention
Why is it so hard to imagine someone doing this without direct order? Why do we assume the "executive" is evil, but the lowly worker is "good"?
Why is it so hard to imagine someone doing this without direct order? Why do we assume the "executive" is evil, but the lowly worker is "good"?
The lowly worker, meanwhile, has failed to rise in the ranks and is therefore less likely to be evil than the population average since some of the evil people (but proportionately fewer not-evil people) have moved out of his or her cohort (to higher-paying positions).
QED.