Oxymoron: Liberal Bosses

i have been stunned at the hypocrisy of some of my bosses. On one hand they are bleeding heart liberals with concern for the poor and unfortunate in need of support from the welfare state.

Then comes the work place. They are quite ruthless in holding down wages, in resorting to punishment more than rewards to get the maximum from their employees before they quit or are fired, in maximizing profits earned and reported to their higher-ups.

They are doing and managing as they are meant to--that is the role they are expected to play, and they consistently comply with the company expectations for a manager.

Just as--but on a much gentler scale--SS officers were vicious at work but living and normal as German civilians with family, neighbors and friends, these bosses practices and political ideology are wildly incompatible. If they were conservative in their political views also, they would be more consistent and much less hypocritical.

I speculate that if I confronted them with the inconsistency, they would be shocked and go into denial. I am sure that they do not know the contrast even exists, let alone that it is functioning in and controlling their personal and professional lives.

Most people live in a illusory fog of lies, half-truths and group-engendered generalities that are bogus. Where people like my bosses are confused in their thinking, and not seeing the forest for the trees, because the unenlightened groups in which they circulate prevent them from waking up and seeing things clearly, the hyprocritical actions and declarations are more a result of ignorance than smug malice.

There is not much free will at work here. Evil is present and operating, but the operators know not what they do. They are enslaved, weak wills, stumbling around in a dark room where the group has shut off the circuit breaker  that runs the light switch by the entrance door.

My function is to help wake people up, restore power to that circuit, turn on the light and let them see their unhelpful inconsistency (unlike a sanctioned, honorable consistency praised as moderate).