{"id":1700947,"date":"2022-10-18T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700947"},"modified":"2022-10-18T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:03:24","slug":"terry-paulson-personal-responsibility-over-political-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/terry-paulson-personal-responsibility-over-political-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Paulson: Personal Responsibility Over Political Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fterry-paulson-personal-responsibility-over-political-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There seems to be something in strongly held political positions that\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">don&#8217;t just want to win. There is a strong temptation for the winners to\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">use their government&#8217;s victory to control and even punish the losers.\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Not all in either party would suggest such extreme measures, but\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">it seems that the extremes on either side can be tempted to want nothing\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">less than exercising &#8220;control.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Politicians seem to convince themselves in a closely divided country that a\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">slim victory, sometimes less than 1%, somehow becomes a clear mandate for\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">radical change. Naturally, initiating radical changes only enrages and\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">energizes the opposition to rally their base in the next election. The\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">result is a natural, destructive pendulum swing that smashes all who dare to\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">search for something in the middle that might receive more widespread\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Attempting to control the masses has always been popular, but seldom\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">successful. A.S. Sussman has been attributed as the author of The Harvard\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Law: &#8220;Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of temperature,\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">pleases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Such &#8220;laws&#8221; are unacceptable to radical politicians, they seemed locked into\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">demanding compliance. It&#8217;s the modern-day version of &#8220;My Way or the\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Highway!&#8221; Even when the choice is possible, they often demand control and move\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">to silence dissent and eliminate options.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">California is facing a continuing drought and a serious water problem. In\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">response, local water companies have imposed overly restrictive rules that\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">defy logic and invite non-compliance. In our area, citizens are allowed to\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">water only on Thursdays with more water than is needed. With highly accurate\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">water meters, it would have been just as easy to establish a water limit for\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the week and let people determine how best to spread out their allowed water\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">resources. Freedom-loving people treasure choice over control. Unnecessary\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">controls just irritate citizens and invite non-compliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">On a national scale, with the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s reversal of Roe vs. Wade,\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the abortion issue has fired up the extreme advocates on both sides of the\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">issue. Adamant Pro-Choice supporters won&#8217;t settle for anything less than the\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">right to an abortion up to the day of birth. Adamant Pro-Life supporters do\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">not want to allow any abortion. Both sides have a right to be heard and to\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">demonstrate in support of their position, but the vast majority of Americans\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">value life and yet understand how the choice to abort is complicated. Like most countries around the world, most want some leeway and\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">some limits. Most would like politicians to find a reasonable middle ground\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">because they understand both the challenges mothers face and the value of\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">that baby in the womb. If they don&#8217;t, they should. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the face of the sudden COVID-19 pandemic and the fog of the war to combat\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the disease, you can understand the desire of politicians to mandate\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">vaccination. Only as more data has become available do we realize that the\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">vaccines were not as effective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be something in strongly held political positions that\u00a0don&#8217;t just want to win. 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