An unsettling thought...

[robkelk]

Valles wrote:Certainly government employees disassociate, too, but from a societal level, and speaking personally as someone who'd be expecting to have to deal with them, 'How can I not get in trouble?' is infinitely preferable to 'Who can I step on to get ahead?'

99% of government employees operate in "Who can I step on to get ahead" mode, 99% of the time. Including elected officials.

My experience says otherwise. And I am a government employee.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012