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If you are at a stop light and a fire truck roars up behind you laying on the horn, what do you do?

1.  Wait for the light to turn green and obey the law.
2.  Move through the intersection to get out of the way (taking care nobody is crossing under their green.)

We live in a position where I get to witness Choice 1 fairly often, I can hear the horn from my office easily enough.

Wow and you lived through the 70s & early 80s.  As much as I don't like the way the current economy is going right now, but with stagflation, oil shocks, poor monetary policies, incomptence of Carter presidency, Nixon's expansion of the nanny state, Ford's lame duck do nothing period by him or congress, etc. things were much worse.

I've found the emergency vehicle drivers are typically smart enough to move into the oncoming lane of traffic with sirens and horns blaring, to get past stuck traffic at an intersection.

Food and basic necessities seem to be more expensive than ever, even normalized for inflation, but I haven't seen any current statistics to back that up.  Just my own perception.

I made a decision to stop "cussing" a while back.  I figure if I can't make a point without using the "F" word every third word, I'm pretty incompetent.  It doesn't offend me, though in my view, it makes one's argument less impactful and more puerile.  As for religion, we all have our beliefs generally not based purely on logic, and thus is not really subject to argument.  I have zero desire to make light of another's religious beliefs (there could be an exception for the truly weird ones).  I don't think others should either, at least not here.  I don't think it possible to argue in print that one should or should not adhere to some major religion.  Usually, "we" adopt whatever religion was in proximity to our childhood and culture.  Often, a person rebels against that, as noted, and goes to the other extreme.  It's akin to the person who stopped smoking and started working out, they can get obnoxious, for no reason.

Anyway, in my view, the F and C words should not be written here.

It's not about influence, it's about our leaders purposely setting aside their reason and consulting an invisible man in the sky.
That is obviously a problem.  Doesn't matter which president or representatives they are, it's a problem.

You wouldn't be cool with the president consulting a magic 8 ball, would you?