Good grief! I innocently went to the post office to mail a birthday package to my friend, and encountered sturm and drang. First an angry old man came up to a woman I was talking to and me, and said he was a Republican and "this" was why. He went on to rant about socialism and needing to make the post office a private business. He later took twenty minutes berating the clerk, then apologized for his earlier rudeness to her. He should have apologized to the rest of us waiting. Then another angry old man came inside with his bike and rang the bell for picking up mail and began shouting when no one opened the window within the first couple of minutes, so he yelled at the clerk demanding the supervisor and why wasn't someone from the back helping him instantly. She said they were all postmen picking up their mail in the back and that she couldn't demand her supervisor do anything. The rest of us were stunned and a bit frightened by all this rage.
If Trump has empowered people like this to behave in an uncivil manner and berate employees who don't call the shots in an organization, then he is already affecting us all. These men clearly had issues which had nothing to do with the post office. They demanded attention and deference. In the best of all possible worlds someone with authority would have asked them to leave. But they were petty tyrants: they knew they wouldn't be held accountable for their bad manners. But they left a bad taste in our mouths and a disturbance in the field.
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