The Fact of the Matter

In simplifying, I've noticed two things that I believe need to be addressed. I won't give advice lightly or often, but today I believe it's fundamental. In homesteading, I am striving for a kinder, gentler America. First, and this is not my political blog, but we Americans appear to think all of our problems and or solutions are political, and we are just getting to be a cranky, angry people. Well, I don't think it's a particular political party, I think it's the blame game of politics in general that intensifies the animosity between the parties which brings me to the next issue; our anger. We are an angry people and the best way to express our anger is to wrap it in the flag and call other Americans unpatriotic or lazy or entitled or you name it, but that's not really the problem. The blame game is only a symptom of the actual problem, which is the anger of the people. Back when most of the country drank well water, there was not this much anger, because we weren't drinking recycled sewage. A lot is added to the drinking water, just to make it potable. I'm not sure it makes it healthy, just treated. One of the things in the treatment of our water, of course we've discovered pharmaceuticals are present, so for many of our angry citizens it could be side-effects of someone else's prescriptions in the drinking water, and the big difference is that fluoride has been added. Everything I've read states that excess fluoride can cause rage issues. Back in the days of wells and cisterns, fluoride wasn't added, so there wasn't an excess of fluoride in our systems! The other contributing factor to our increased anger level, I discovered bra shopping. I shop for my bras on line, because well size matters, and my size is difficult to find. In looking at the online catalogue, I couldn't help but notice the thongs in the lingerie department. I cannot imagine the mood I'd be in, if I were walking around all day, with something up my behind. It's got to be worse than having your panties in a twist. I mean we are all aware of the question to a cranky person referring to something possibly lodged or wedged exactly where a thong fits. It may take politicians to vote the fluoride out of the water, but we the people can stop choosing to have something up our behind!