Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim. People appear to wanna think too damn much about subjects over which they have limited actual knowledge and even less ability to effect. I think that folks have somehow managed to believe the new-age nonsense that their opinion matters and that their voice should be heard. This might work at the elementary school level where an adult is in charge of the difficult process of corralling and teaching a bunch of eight year-olds, but from what I have seen, it doesn’t work all that well even there. I am forever indebted to Terry, the foreman of the cleaning crew that cleaned the O.R.’s where I used to work. Terry had a saying that he used to use when anyone came up with an idea to “make things easier”; If it was a good idea, he would give it a trial run and see. If it wasn’t a good idea, a lot of the time he would repeat the idea back (replete with the “make things easier”) and then tack on the postscript “for you”. There are going to be winners and losers in the headlong slide down that our country is experiencing. What is happening in the political arena is the decision making process trying to choose who is going to get screwed the least. Because buckaroos, we are all going to get screwed a bit.