So, the word is out, Biden is a bust. His presidency will be remembered along with Jimmy Carter’s and Herbert Hoover’s as a disaster for the United States. All well and good. But he’s going to be around for years and the country is still in the hand of Marxists so what do we do in the meantime?
Well, we live! We’ve still got families and friends and jobs and responsibilities, mortgages and food bills and all the other things that require our attention and organize our days. We’ll still have to deal with woke psychopaths who run the companies we work for and torment us with diversity, equity and inclusion jibber jabber. We still have the federal and maybe state government trying to covidize our lives. And we still have to manage to deal with the shambles Biden has made of our economy. And if you live in a blue city you have to dodge homicidal criminals without the help of a functioning police force. That’s what you still have to do. Sounds not too good. But we’ll do it. And an important strategy in surviving this mess is framing the situation correctly. I’ll explain.
Losing your job is a bad way to deal with the annoyances that have become attached to modern companies. You’re going to have to put up with watching the corporate harassment training video and now they’ll have the diversity, equity and inclusion video too. And if you’re in management they’ll expect you to drink the Kool-Aid and spout the party line. But who says you have to go the management route? If you’ve got an important skill, you can avoid all the nonsense by just doing your job and avoiding the wrong people. What do I mean by the wrong people? I mean the woke, the social justice warriors, the true believers. You’ll be able to spot them a mile away. They always have several rainbow flags adorning their work space and other such paraphernalia. They’re mostly women and/or queer but there are plenty of exceptions. Some of the worst of the worst are straight white men who want to prove their loyalty to the cause.
These people will not hesitate to get you fired. Never socialize with them. Avoid talking to them about anything but work and limit even that to the minimum necessary to do your job right. This has a twofold benefit. The obvious one is it protects you from being reported to Human Resources for some kind of harassment offense. And that is a very important benefit. But the second one is also important. Avoiding these people makes your life better. I’ll give an example.
I used to work with this guy who was a progressive. Sort of like one of the old hippies. He and I both worked for a contract engineering company and were both assigned to the same client for a very extended contract. Eventually both of us went to work for the client directly. I had always tried to be friendly with the guy. We had worked on an assignment together in California years before and for the most part he was a nice enough guy, maybe a bit too goofy. But because the client company we both joined had a very lefty culture he quickly became adapted and soon he was one of the worst of the bunch. And since we still spent plenty of time together at lunch and coffee breaks, he quickly became one of the most annoying parts of my day. And this went on for the better part of a year until one day after one of these aggravating conversations it occurred to me that I disliked this guy intensely and eventually this was going to end up with this guy reporting me for some kind of thought crime. It was the logical outcome. So, the next time he started up on something, I told him I had had enough and from now on we would limit our conversations to work concerns only. He looked a little stunned but he could tell I was completely serious and that was the last personal conversation we ever had. Almost immediately I felt like some horrible irritant had been removed from my life. I realized that I no longer had indigestion after lunch and I felt much less tired in the afternoon. Sure, there were still plenty of lefties at work but I wasn’t responsible for talking with them at lunch or on coffee breaks. I made a point after that to spend my time at lunch or break with like minded people and that worked wonders.
And this is a good policy everywhere. Both at work and outside work I look to spend my time with people whose opinions I respect. It can never be one hundred percent. Most of my bosses were lefties. I was always very professional and performed what was expected of me but when it came to company social functions I would bow out. No golf. That was with the management types and they were woke types almost to a man. Bowling would be better but still there were problems so I even let that go. I preferred to organize my own after work activities with only people I knew wouldn’t aggravate me with some progressive nonsense.
And that’s what I mean by reframing the situation. Just because the Left controls the public and private organizations doesn’t mean they control most of the important parts of our lives. We have control of most of the space we live in. Sort out the world into the good and the bad. Avoid those people who only cause grief and trouble. Seek out the people who won’t cause heartburn when you spend time with them. They don’t have to be your clones. There’s plenty of variation on our side of the fence. There are intellectuals and guys who prefer to get their hands dirty. There are introverts and extroverts. You name it.
So, there’s my secret in a nutshell. Search out the people on our side of the fence and maximize the connections you have with them. Fraternize with them. Do business with them. Help them when they need help. And more importantly, avoid the opposite types. Don’t waste your free time around them. Avoid them like the plague. You’ll be happier and you’ll isolate them from normal people. And that’s what they deserve.