lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

There came a time when public outcry over the horrible and deadly working conditions in many industries, resulted in new laws, rules and oversight agencies ( such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA ) in an attempt to save lives. They were, by and large, successful - then - more and more rules, more new laws appeared, until a facility manager couldn't fart without being fined by one agency or another. What was the response to the "step-too-far"? Doing away with practically every rule and regulation on the books.......................leading, logically, right back to where this all started. What happened to reason, restraint, logic and careful consideration? The answer, in nut shell, is that Americans are allergic to all of that.

Our entire history is a series of mad dashes first one way, then another way, never braking long enough to smell the coffee in the habitable zone, or Goldy locks zone. At no time in our history, has the extreme on any issue brought lasting success, perhaps at best, the temporary illusion of success before reality intervenes. All of our successes have occurred somewhere between where we try to go, and where we end up, and usually happens by accident.

We kept our chickens in the yard, ignoring everything on the other side of the fence, which lead to us fighting a world war - not once - but twice. Then, we decided to play world wide police, sticking our fingers into everybody's pie - and all we get are sticky fingers ( sounds like a song ). What's wrong with minding our own business, only becoming busybodies when absolutely necessary? Same answer as above, we just can't handle driving in the middle of the road.

C*****e c****e is real..................so we either want to end f****l f**l usage immediately, or we want to keep burning, hell bent for leather. What's wrong with long term goals, where we search for viable substitutes while phasing out older, dirtier technologies simultaneously? Oh yeah, I forgot, we start terminal sneezing whenever common sense or the h**ed middle-of-the-road conversations start.

Constantly being all in, or all out, never considering what new marvels can be found in between those extremes, is bound to lead to polarization, accelerating addiction and suicide rates, hyper vigilance ( creating more of the previous as well as PTSD ), marked increases in violent crimes, an epidemic of clinical depression, faster erosion of the family unit, and a further decline in spiritual maintenance. I sure hope we find a way to find, and get comfortable with, the Goldy locks zone before any of that happens.

Seth

Before a certain political party, not to mention any names (D) allowed far left extremists to buy it through campaign contributions (they must sing for their supper), our checks and balances worked just fine.

That's how we got our inland waterways and air cleaned up without k*****g jobs by running manufacturing and other industries offshore, that's how we solved our civil rights inequities, that's how we maintained a country full of people who were on the same team.

But no, the Democrats, who have long been susceptible to the lure of corruption, in fact, going back to the 1960s and 1970s, when there was an active C*******t Party in America, were the only one of our two major political parties to lose v**ers to the C*******ts -- remember when Angela Davis was on the p**********l b****t for some years? -- the Democrats had to sell out our country and Constitution for their 30 pieces of silver.

They've actually managed, in a few short decades, to completely upset the equilibrium that made America the greatest country in history through their lack of compromise and unending pursuit of d******eness in order to con v**es out of every minority of non-mainstream interest group, "creating" r****m where there was none, levelling outrageous and slanderous charges, with the help of the mainstream media, at their political opposition and doing everything they can to "fundamentally t***sform America."

Thank G-d for President Trump.