Maggie's Farm

Regarding political discussions at work, I try to avoid them like the plague.
People have always been touchy about politics. More importantly, they confuse economics with politics and are ignorant about economics.
So, in their mind, the concept of political economy is the only meaningful discussion. As a result, a fair discussion of the market and how it works is almost always sublimated to a discussion of the moral imperative regarding government's need to help people. It becomes a moral and ethical discussion, completely subjective and not objective at all.
Furthermore, Bastiat's claim reigns supreme:
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”

I have, more than once, heard someone say "I have no problem if my tax dollars go to health care." To which I reply, "that's all well and good, but how do you feel about people who have no problem if their tax dollars go to military, or politicians' salaries, or supporting the wages of bureaucrats? How do you feel about the people who don't want the government taking their earned revenue at all, so they can put it into places, like health care or charity, where it can do real good?"

I recently said this to a Hillary supporter. She looked at me, puzzled, and said "Are you a conspiracy theorist?"

I laughed and said no, that I had been a physics major for 2 years early in my college career, and was taught to have a healthy skepticism, though. But I fight conspiracy theories with every fiber of my being, and am more inclined to apply Occam's Razor to most things.

She didn't know what Occam's Razor was, and looked at me sideways. At this point, I exited the conversation with a simple "I prefer to avoid discussions about politics at work. Nobody wins, and if one person is higher ranking than another, it's likely to result in a bad situation at a time when both employees need to be as objective as possible."

This person continues to fill her communiques to personnel in the office are full of politically correct, leftist, marginalia. There is nothing which happens in our office that can't, somehow, be related back to Hillary's loss, the stupidity of conservatives, and/or the idiocy of Trump.

The work environment with this person can be quite toxic when the talk turns to politics, and they unfortunately hold a very high position in the organization. However, her personal views match those of our corporate entity, so she is unlikely to come under fire.

Exactly.

That's the Progressive way.