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In reply to the discussion: UFFS!(Friday Night) NOAA backs Trump on Alabama hurricane forecast, rebukes Weather Service [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)idealism and a belief that right always won out over wrong. My parents were poor, but they always did what was right and just, and they helped those with less.
So I enter the working world and saw things that were just wrong, I also knew my coworkers knew about those things happening. No one did or said anything because they were concerned about losing their high paying jobs. Fast forward years and I see the same things happening. You, and I am sure me (as I did as a young engineer) would call out against injustice and face retribution, but I no longer expect that I will have an army of people backing me.
Those people had a choice, face down Trump and his unethical administrator of their agency and likely get demoted or lose the jobs outright, or lie to placate Trump and hope that ends it.
I no longer look for heroes in life like I did when I was a young engineer. People are going to protect their self-interests, rarely have I met ones that just did what was right.