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Anonymous wrote:Maybe he's following the news that he cares most about, but not following everything because trying to keep up with it all is a fast route to despair.

I'm left-leaning working for a left-leaning organization. I prefer not to have political conversations at work, particularly with my bosses or my direct reports. But if I did, I could probably have a conversation about what's going on in health care or education news. But if you asked me about Trump's speech to the UN for example, I probably couldn't tell you much.

Op here. I think he’s probably so overwhelmed that he just puts his head in the sand.

How young are you?

Is this your first job?

A boss discussing politics at work, especially with junior employees like yourself, is a terrible, terrible idea for reasons too many to count.

Quit pushing politics at work. Save it for your friend group.

Not junior and if you can’t even bother to follow the context, move on.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe he's following the news that he cares most about, but not following everything because trying to keep up with it all is a fast route to despair.

I'm left-leaning working for a left-leaning organization. I prefer not to have political conversations at work, particularly with my bosses or my direct reports. But if I did, I could probably have a conversation about what's going on in health care or education news. But if you asked me about Trump's speech to the UN for example, I probably couldn't tell you much.

Op here. I think he’s probably so overwhelmed that he just puts his head in the sand.

How young are you?

Is this your first job?

A boss discussing politics at work, especially with junior employees like yourself, is a terrible, terrible idea for reasons too many to count.

Quit pushing politics at work. Save it for your friend group.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe he's following the news that he cares most about, but not following everything because trying to keep up with it all is a fast route to despair.

I'm left-leaning working for a left-leaning organization. I prefer not to have political conversations at work, particularly with my bosses or my direct reports. But if I did, I could probably have a conversation about what's going on in health care or education news. But if you asked me about Trump's speech to the UN for example, I probably couldn't tell you much.

Op here. I think he’s probably so overwhelmed that he just puts his head in the sand.

Anonymous wrote:My work is inherently political because our clients and our jobs are impacted (hurt) by the administration's actions. We have a teams chat to share protests, etc. But we still don't talk about the daily news cycle because it's exhausting. OP, it's ok for your boss to handle things differently from you.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe he's following the news that he cares most about, but not following everything because trying to keep up with it all is a fast route to despair.

I'm left-leaning working for a left-leaning organization. I prefer not to have political conversations at work, particularly with my bosses or my direct reports. But if I did, I could probably have a conversation about what's going on in health care or education news. But if you asked me about Trump's speech to the UN for example, I probably couldn't tell you much.

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Anonymous wrote:Read the room OP! He just doesn’t want to talk about it with you.

This. You should never expect a colleague to discuss politics

Anonymous wrote:I might be your boss. I am secretly MAGA.

Anonymous wrote:Read the room OP! He just doesn’t want to talk about it with you.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna be real with you, I'm left leaning and I don't keep up with the news either. I hate Trump and everything he's doing and no one seems to be able to do anything...watching the news just makes me pointlessly frustrated so I don't.

Honestly I can relate to your boss wanting to focus on work instead of perseverating over something we can't do anything about. (And don't say we can protest, because those don't seem to be working.)

Same. And I work in a support role at a news organization. The news just stresses me out and there's not a thing I can do about it. I keep up with what's going on in my local community.

Op here. This may be what he’s doing. It just struck me because he is so left leaning and typically chats a lot about personal stuff AND some of what is going on recently indirectly impacts us at work. But on this, it’s like he’s got his head in the sand.

Is he a white man? Friends and I were talking about how our white husbands don’t like Trump and vote against him and complain about him at dinner parties, but are “mostly fine.”

The conclusion was that white men (who aren’t MAGA) more or less believe they’re going to be fine because they’ve always been fine.

They obvs don’t have the same struggles that women and POC do, which is why sadly so few are speaking up.

Is it possible that your husbands actually all voted for Trump, but tell you otherwise to maintain peace in the marriage?

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Anonymous wrote:Is OP a tween?

Definitely in her early 20s.

Could be a young millennial. Definitely not GenX.