Smile and nod and get on with your business.
Anyone can bloviate. But few people can listen.
Not everyone who bloviates is worth listening to. But they appreciate the audience.
Few people who bloviate are interested in the opinions of others, especially if they disagree with them. People like affirmation, but not debate or discussion.
So— you can have your opinions as well as the next person. But in the midst of our opinions, it’s always healthy to be humble, and keep in mind we might not have all the information/data/facts, especially once you get away from the black-and-white good-and-evil morality kind of stuff, and into the stuff that we’re free to have our own perceptions about.
But, for example— it’s funny how people might write paragraphs about how so-and-so is a terrible cabinet choice, or blah-blah-blah re: military strategy, or having an opinion about the merits of the ambassador to Peru. And for those of us who remember 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, however many years in the past… we realize that, say, during the Nixon years, or the Carter years, or the Eisenhower administration, or even the first Bush administration— how many of us could name an ambassador off the top of our head? Or name three cabinet members? Or name five current events going on in a foreign country and how they intersected with American interests? All that kind of stuff generally happened elsewhere, and we didn’t hear about it. But nowadays, with the internet and the 24-hour news cycle, everyone and their dog is an expert on everything…
