Speaking Of Special Interest Groups.

       Speaking of special interest groups, did you know that there are more special interest groups than there are Senators and Congressmen combined? In fact I wouldn't be surprised to learn there are more special interest groups than there are citizens in America. There is no subject for which there isn't a special interest group. You've got to be careful where you walk lest you step on one. And for heavens sake watch what you say or you'll run afoul of the SIG police.
       There are conservative SIGs and liberal SIGs, hot button issues SIGs, and presumably cold button issues SIGs too. In fact when you stop and think about it, pretty much everybody is a member of some sort of SIG. So it's hard to say we should do away with SIGs or that we should ignore Sigs. I formed a special interest group to pay attention to me. Can you imagine if everybody ignored my SIG? That would be devastating. No, we've got to come up with a different way.
       The problem with SIGs is that just about anybody can run a SIG and I mean anyone. Now that, in and of itself isn't a problem. The problem is that a bunch of special interest groups are causing problems with our government and the way our country operates. Some folks think we should shut it down permanently and just do away with it. What those folks want is to run it their way or the highway. That would work if they were a majority of citizens, but they're not. And they're not alone. There's another group that wants things their way and they don't like this first group.
       Now this shouldn't be a problem for our government and usually isn't, except both sides got some odd people elected and now they're at odds and are willing to do just about anything to get their way. That's bad enough, but one of the groups has another SIG within it's group and they want something entirely different.
       These are the special interest groups of which I speak. These are the SIGs we need to figure out how to ignore. We should be polite, but we should ignore. My mother always said to be polite. The ignore part she didn't like so much, but there does come a time when ignoring is the preferred recipe.