Agreeing to agree doesn’t seem like much to the uninitiated.
It gets tricky when you agree with people you’ve never thought much of; you know, disagreeable people.
Tricky and stunning when the role call of those to agree with brings a cast of characters together.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like an unusual group.
Imagine having a huge network of highly qualified, deeply experienced, men and women who had witnessed your actions and opinions up close and personal, and step back in unison with a hearty, ‘Oh, fuck no,”
Mike Pence says, “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution.
HR McMaster: “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”
John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
When people who have spent their careers rising and striving, learning and putting what they’ve learned to use, who have seen how things work from the inside out, come to similar conclusions, it’s a celebration, but also alarming.
Career climbers with decades in the grind know about allies, backstabbers, and fuck-ups.
That last one is the big surprise.
Big timers, GS-15’s, equal to brigadier generals, along with the multi-starred generals themselves, have had experience with fuck-ups in their ranks.
They know how to redirect, how to deal with them, as part of the job.
Imagine their shock and awe when their new boss turns out to be one of the biggest ever?
Look At That
How do people who agree with each other make something of it?
How do the hard chargers not make something of it?
Based on their life experience, they respect the chain of command and their place in it.
Just voicing there feelings about the Big Guy goes against their nature.
And, as retired people in the government system, they have vulnerabilities for speaking out.
Who does that leave the heavy lifting to?
Baby Boomers Agreeing To Agree
Of any generation, which one had the most heralded introduction?
Which one was the most sassy, the most ‘don’t tell me what to do,’ the one with the most fuck-ups per capita?
I remember waiting for a pay phone to clear in the 70’s so I could make a call.
After the last guy finished, a hippie-looking man asked for spare change.
The guy said, “No.”
The hippie said, “It’s all good,” to which the first guy responded, “Yeah, it’s all good until it isn’t.”
I think that’s the attitude many carry currently, it’s all good until it isn’t.
When is it not all good?
How can we tell?
From what I hear, and I take the pulse of the nation everyday on twitter, no one works well with a fuck-up.
They speak a language unto themselves with the translation forthcoming, or not.
Some folks tune out, some want to know more of the strange tongue being spoken.
They work hard to make sense, but the true meaning seems to come from an unexpected source.
Because of their high levels of experience and education they do their best to make it make enough sense to say complimentary things.
Eventually it becomes second nature, and with it grow expectations from others.
While you sit in quiet solitude, watching for when to speak up, things can clear up in the history mirror.
About David Gillaspie
your excursions into politics, including this one, seems altogether one sided. Just my opinion.
I agree.
I’m not a ‘fine people on both sides’ blogger.
That’s the beauty of putting in the time on my side.