obedience

“The fact remains that Comey is being persecuted, not prosecuted, for putting service to the nation above obedience to a man,” the Guardian’s Lawrence Douglas wrote.

“When he was younger, way before we knew we were doing this, he had some basic obedience training,” Fischer noted.

Their power to keep a country functioning, he stresses, relies on the cooperation and obedience of those they govern.

For them, success is not obedience to the system but independence from it.

Did Nexstar and Sinclair take marching orders directly from the White House, or did their leaders just seize an opportunity to curry favor and demonstrate obedience in advance?