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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born and raised in a very middle class suburb of Detroit. I graduated at the top of my high school class, got a scholarship to an Ivy League school, and moved away from Michigan never to return for longer than a couple of weeks for a few summers. Fast forward 25 years, my husband is from similar circumstances, we met here in DC and are both GS-15s. I've been proud to be s civil servant and have worked pretty hard to provide high quality services through my department.

In this election season I've been totally shocked by the level of fury and anger directed at Washington, "the system", and even me personally by my hometown friends on both the left and right. They hate us. One woman I haven't seen in 20 years called me a cancer who would need to be removed once Donald Trump gained the presidency after I posted something fairly neutral on the election, the Bernie supporters were pretty similar.

Frankly my husband and I could have had more lucrative careers in the private sector like many of my college and law school classmates but we came to government out of a sense of patriotism and civic duty. I work hard because I want our government to function well, I had no idea how many people assumed I am a lazy drain on the economy.

What have we done to earn this vitriol and how do we change this perception?[/quote]

How tone deaf can you get, PP.  you are the very embodiment of why people hate the government.  You work very little have paid vacations and medical benefits that are the envy of the world.  Of course people resent you. It comes with, being a fed.  You are  a nice life at the expense of others who are not.  
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You are making a lot of ASSumptions about OP. And it sure sounds like you've heard a lot of lies at least a hundred times.[/quote]

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