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W Balboos, GHB9-Mar-21 3:03
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Greg Utas wrote:
apparatchiks
and all that goes with it.

Here (in US) we have a two-party system and now, more than ever before, hate one another. And then we also have the real civil service (non-appointees) who's jobs are protected by OPM (office of personnel management). That system is why Trump couldn't fire Faucci. He was civil-service.

In fact, we have a thing called The Hatch Act (which Ronald Reagan tried to get rid of). It forbids a civil service employee from taking part in partisan politics:   they can lose their position. That means they cannot be threatened into it or risk their jobs. Rather clever, actually. They may take part in non-partisan concerns (Save the Whales or Rebuild America's Highways, for example). And they can vote how they please - but they may not campaign for any political party.

Perhaps your experiences are different - especially with that Soviet Era (and current Russia?) reference. Unlike the police or medical professionals, real scientists wash their dirty laundry in public - and fortunately, as it is science, the right answer can (eventually) be proven (or, if you wish to be strict, the wrong answer can be disproven).

Maybe it's different in your piece of the world.

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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