It's been at least three weeks, but the Heir has only just gotten a chance now to agree with that one FOP that Pat Lynch shouldn't have made a political endorsement.  Their concern, also shared by the Heir, is that it makes the cops a partisan force, and makes it harder for them to do their jobs.  This at a time when the Heir sees BLM's side in the excessive force debate being hijacked by the Ed Snowden types.  He imagines having to have a debate with one of those and making negotiations of some sort, but the problem with "debates" is that when one person comes out as the "winner," the other person is counted as the "loser" as in a zero-sum game.  And then the "loser" has to completely endorse everything the "winner" says, and not stand for one's own sense of conviction.  The substantive specifics of the debate get lost and are long forgotten.  Look at when Ed Snowden himself said, "I already won."  The Heir sees videos of these self appointed spokespeople amidst some of the protests, and he sees them acting like just because there's been excessive force, they as spokespeople can never be wrong.  They try to tell the Heir that just because the Heir himself didn't have to deal with excessive force, that somehow that means the Heir never had to deal with *anything*, period.  The Heir wants to remind those spokespeople of how forced obsolescence caused him to lose a job five years ago when the economy was "great," and how he was told he had to utilize the "power of positive thinking."  His loss of that job also made him look "wrong" when it came to his disagreements with Ed Snowden.  So, in that sense at least, the grass is greener on the other side.  Also, the bit about being rendered forensically "wrong" can actually be fatal, because the Heir believes that those two deputies in Los Angeles were not necessarily shot out of revenge over excessive force.  He believes they were shot because they were perceived as weak for being in the "wrong" in the debate.  The Heir doesn't recall the officers having a debate with anyone at the time.  They were ambushed in their vehicles when they apparently least expected it.