Thank you for your moderate response.

Of course I agree with you and it is easy to paint with a broad brush. There are definitely a handful of good doctors and a handful of good teachers and a handful of good politicians. But with politicians, for example, we have generally known that 90% of them are corrupt, lying scumbags in it for money, power, and their own ego. That’s just been the common trope for politicians for decades. It’s a very mainstream notion.

Yet doctors and teachers have always been admired, even as all of us are used to apathetic doctors who just over-prescribe pharmaceuticals and try to scurry you out the door, and growing up in the education ourselves, how many of us would describe our own teachers as “amazing”? Most people admit they are lucky if they had one or two great teachers who left an impression on them, out of what? Fifty to sixty teachers? Most were just phoning it in, and plenty were straight out abusive and cruel to their students. I think almost all of us have experienced that. So I think what I am describing mostly is people waking up to that reality during the pandemic. We are seeing doctors withhold cures from their patients because corporations told them to, we are seeing nurses twerk like whores in hospital halls, we are seeing teachers refuse to teach in person, or if they are forced to teach, they hold kids down and force masks on their faces before opening up the textbook to show them pornography, and cops - well, we are seeing cops bodyslam old grannies into the ground and mace mothers in the face in front of their children. And I do think these professions need to be shamed for their behavior. And the good ones in those professions now just have to own their reputation because of how the majority are acting, just like good politicians have to be associated with scumbags, or good lawyers have to hear nasty lawyer jokes. The hope is that enough of the good ones in these professions start to call out their co-workers because they are tired of their shitty reputation.

So I acknowledge the good ones but until the good ones become the majority, they are going to continue to be painted with the same brush whether we like it or not because that’s just life. I am also in a profession where most of the people in that profession are hated by the public and instead of whining about it or saying “not me” I just say, “Yeah, it’s a pretty accurate assessment.” I don’t make it about myself and I don’t take offense. I would expect truly good doctors and good teachers and good cops - the few there are - would feel the same way.