Election Year or Fear!

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...all of which IMO relate to a negative human trait of 'following the herd'. That first anecdote rings so true to me (in business settings which I accept are a bit different), I've sat amongst colleagues where the majority will either go with the opinion of a senior/subject 'expert' or won't speak up against same, despite diagreeing with them, either for fear of being accused of an 'ism' of some sort, or having a 'marker' against them for job retention/career progression, or just for being made to look foolish around peers. Then its resident gob****e AF (or notable others) who speak up at risk, with later slaps on the back from the cowards in the room. Having followed the grooming issue a bit and more so over the last few days I find it unbelievable that so many 'professionals' (police, social workers etc) could independantly decide that community harmony mattered more than protecting vulnerable females, there MUST have been a significant amount of 'follow my leader'/herd mentality going on

‘Slaps on the back from the cowards in the room’, certainly resonates AF, but it does sometimes take a degree of both confidence and stubbornness to stand up to others, especially when they hold a position of greater authority.

I wouldn’t be so surprised about the herd behaviour of certain professionals though. After all, haven’t two very senior members of the CoE establishment just been caught up in a similar smaller scale cover up and don’t get me started on non disclosure agreements. Different circumstances I know, but they’re usually just a method of an organisation/establishment covering up facts that may cause embarrassment. I refused to sign one once…didn’t go down at all well.