I think this comment from a reddit thread about the "buyout" (www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1icj3wc/this_non_buyout_really_seems_to_have_backfired/) is the perfect representation of the mindset of a lot of government employees. They are operating out of a place of fear because they are being forced to reckon with the fact that they have no optionality. They don't have any skills that are transferable outside of the government job they always have had. They have operated with this mindset that their job will always exist and the status quo will remain forever. Now they are having to come to terms with a reality that their job might no longer exist and they have to, for the first time, consider what their life outside of that would look like. While I have some empathy for these people and do not wish hardship or pain on anyone, there needs to be recognition that this mindset and attitude is what has been bloating and weighing down our society for decades. People have been coddled by and become dependent on an unsustainable system for so long. The rubber is now meeting the road and someone has to feel the pain. While I am not a supporter of Trump and his party members, he is the natural response for a system that has taken so much and provided so little.