Everyone has an opinion, and that is entirely right and proper.
What is not right and proper is using your position of authority outside of politics or outside of an area that is not your area of expertise or your area of authority to shout at people, to tell them to believe what you believe.
We never did so much of that back in the day, but these days, we do it all the time.
There's a lot to shout about, there's a lot to be upset about, a lot to be annoyed about and a lot to care about, but that doesn't give you the right to take a position in some sort of organisation or authority, and then twist it to your own view.
People in positions of authority outside of politics should be apolitical because the people within their organisations share a diverse and wide range of views. The job of the leader is to bring that together, not to push it apart, to collaborate, not destroy.
I'm being particularly vague in this post, but probably not for long.
Within our profession, people have decided that because they have risen up into some sort of position of perceived pseudo authority/leadership, they get the opportunity to turn that organisation into a political battering arm for whichever political, humanitarian or societal view they might have.
That is not acceptable, certainly not for me.
I will not be paying to or subscribing to or collaborating with people who think that just because they were a little bit good at dentistry or dental politics or anything like that, allows them to be a career politician or activist.
Stand for election if you want to do that in proper politics; otherwise, do the job of leading the people that you're leading and bring them together instead of pushing them apart.
Blog Post Number - 4223
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