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First, nobody is saying government workers need to follow all orders. They can always quit. If certain workers believe they cannot in good conscience work for the Trump administration, then they have my respect, but they should resign.

Second, genocide is a far cry from the government not sufficiently regulating a business to your tastes.

If government workers are allowed to make their own policy, we are not long a democracy, but a dictatorship-by-beaucracy.

You may think that is a-okay when someone you dislike is in power, but how did you feel when that Kentucky Clerk refused to issue marriage certificates to homosexuals? What if the workers in HHS decide they need to regulate abortion?




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