From the mind of critic: “If we all pushed things to the very limit when we were teenagers just to see what we could get away with, do some of us never grow out of that phase? Do we have a right to push things as far as they’ll go under the law, so we can take advantage of every opportunity to better ourselves in ways not expressly spelled out in the law code as an illegal act? Is that the American way? Or do we have a moral obligation as human beings on this floating blue orb we call earth, to not take advantage, step on or push down others, just so we can have a little bit more than them even if something isn’t expressly illegal, but is conduct unbecoming of anybody who would consider themselves a good steward of our collective species? Is that the American way? It’s not unusual to test limits and what we can get away with when we were younger, and discovering what this world is all about. We were born without knowledge, and learn it from our parents and/or other outside stimuli. Problems appear when we’re older and should know better, but still provoke people by acting in certain ways only to get a response. This can surely cause us trouble if we’re a working class adult just trying to scrape out a living, amongst others who are in the same boat taking out our frustrations on each other, instead of the people on the top who actually deserve it because they’re causing it. This concept of pushing limits till they break causes much more havoc if we’re an adult CEO, or an elected office holder. We might feel like we’re above the law, while only the little people have to live by it because we created it,. What can make it even trickier, is we can push things to the limit in favor of progressive change, or in favor of regressive change. Which brings us back once again to intent. Do we have to lift others up to get ahead, or push them down? If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it’s because the actions that follow push others down, instead of building them up which makes the stated intentions false. And when these stated intentions are false, a person or a President will attempt anything their imagination can think up. Their success depends on the amount of pushback they recieve” 🙂