I had noted that my friends of 50+ years were far more centrist or left of my views. We have a meet up of old school friends and a very old school chum came along. We haven't seen him for 50 years or so. Crazily he lived around the corner from two of us (twice as he also lived near me in my first house). In 50 years I only met him once at the station very briefly!
We all had very different jobs but I was surprised at the vitriol for President Trump. I looked at some of the hatred and wondered why they hated him so much. He's got some horrendous problems in the US to deal with and funding a war thousands of miles away using his voter's money cannot be a popular policy along with the waste and other problems he has to tackle. The soaring debts and imbalances are being tackled - not to everyone's liking but the medicine is intentionally bitter if he is to save the patient. But my friends don't like the man himself.
They did not vote for him, the don't live there, they don't have an inkling of the problems he needs to tackle. Being an INTJ of course, I do not understand the need for people to be likeable, I certainly wasn't (probably I'm still not). I cannot deal with fools or these sort of ad hominem attacks based on nothing other than whether you like someone or not. The sort of people who do this are the worst sort of decision makers or workers you can have I've found for they do things based on feelings and liberal ideals of the world and are often surprised that the fail, often spectacularly as their ideas crash and burn out of nowhere and they are left blinking at the wreckage wondering, "How did this happen?"
From the church going people there, it was the worst kind of wish too. How can you wish someone, the winner of the popular vote, who is there to MAGA, the evil end they were discussing. Then they were off on their fantasy of him becoming a dictator blah blah. Normal sensible people off on a rant about something they know little about. I would have expected better given they took in a refugee family who then proceeded to trash their house! Mmmm.
Oh well, we are each entitled to our opinions and I guess they can have theirs but I changed the subject rather than pile in with what I know and how the game (if it is that) is played. I used similar tactics if needed in my professional life, especially when the boss was being an idiot. Want to change someone's behaviour? Either hit them in their pocket, screw up their management figures or make them stand out for some other reason. A change in policy that is stupid can be combated by following the new rules to the tee whilst previously have warned in writing what might happen. Stuff turns around fast when the boss attracts his boss's attention.
There's a plan, it's being followed whether we like it or not. We know nothing of what is going on at the highest levels and it's best at the moment to watch it unfold. It's not how we are used to and it's not always pretty but it seems to work. If we don't understand the fundamental reasons why this is all going on, then we probably don't have the right to comment or criticize. Follow the money, always.
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