No revenge, but a reckoning.

[Jolly]

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/07/republican-bill-would-make-feds-at-will-employees-and-chill-whistleblowing/375138/

Time to do something...

[jon-nyc]

You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:

You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.

Would you mind explaining how Chesterton's Fence applies to that article?

[jon-nyc]

There was a reason we went through the very difficult process of civil service reform in the first place, isolating most government employees from partisan firing/hiring every few years.

[Axtremus]

@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:

You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.

“Republican” today not necessarily “conservative.”

[jon-nyc]

Yeah that occurred to me as I was posting.

[Horace]

@Axtremus said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:

@jon-nyc said in No revenge, but a reckoning.:

You’d think conservatives would have heard of Chesterton’s fence.

“Republican” today not necessarily “conservative.”

In the absence of perfect adherence to a philosophy, one might prefer at least an overall direction.

Raises the question, what word would one use to describe the nominal underlying political philosophy of Democrats?

[Mik]

It sure as hell isn't liberal.