"It's the way politics works. If you can piss 'em off and still make it to the top, you win." Smirking, Alastor raised an eyebrow. "Someone in my position is going to piss people off and make their lives more difficult. Better to enjoy it than worry needlessly over the inevitable."
He huffed in amusement. "Oh, it would stop them -- for about as long as it took to make anyone stuck in hearing range suicidal listening to them whine about it."