Adaptation
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It comes with the territory. One of those areas which should be avoided in the world of public speaking ... or writing if you will is the area of local politics even if you have an opinion. In an effort to remain employable I never delve into anything contentious or controversial in the area of local politics because I like my job and I need it a lot.
There's something very comforting about being able to eat and live indoors that I'd just as soon continue. Therefore I indulge things other than anything in the local government scene beyond a few innocuous whines now and then. It all leaves me feeling hypocritical at times when I "feel one way" and ignore those feelings because it is not efficacious to my work. Laying low in the fabric of any municipality is far better than opening one's mouth or expressing ideas which may not sit well with others in your midst.
Political expedience is far preferable to becoming the local curmudgeon out to way-lay anyone and everyone with my dissenting views if there are any. In my old age I find my politics can wait ... and that they have and will.
My duties are purely technical. They keep me around because I can do things and fix things because I know things. That has to be "good enough" at some base level of existence because early on I simply HAD to let everyone know where I stood on EVERYTHING. That didn't work out too well for me at all.
We don't have to agree for me to provide services to you and be grateful for that business.