Do they have hobbies/beliefs/sycophantic mannerisms similar to the bosses in charge? Because that’ll get you promoted. A lot of management are lonely people who don’t view others as equals unless they suck up or never argue, thus useless people get promoted so they can hang with “friends” in meetings all day.

Or good old nepotism.

I’m in Canada, and our Thanksgiving was a month ago. Given weed is legal here, I too avoided the truly deranged politics by flying to the moon. Good times. Also my turkey turned out amazing.

Yup. We keep learning the same thing over and over: Don’t hero worship people, demand they be better and stay better or don’t support them.

He will eventually do something that will make the OP situation look like nothing, just like Elon, Joanne, or Trump. It’s just a matter of time.

You should demand better then either, neither should be in charge of a sandwich shop, let alone a country.

My guess is in 10 years we will see him run for president similar to Trump. This won’t end well.

That cow’s sick! Must be bird flu.

They were subject to the same propaganda we all were and no one is immune, so yes, feeling empathy is OK.

Also there is a huge potential problem when you give a group lots of power and then under pay them. They are a lot easier to bribe.