We seem to have become a might brain dead in this Country. People seem to jump at whatever pops up at the given moment. If the news tells of terrorism, folks panic. In reality, you are far more likely to be hit by lightening that by a terrorist.
People voted for Trump after hearing his radical campaign promises and are now watching him back pedal faster than a circus performer on a unicycle.
Pundits talk of the need to eliminate business regulations, saying that they kill business. They fail to mention that when we deregulated banks, we got stuck having to bail them out after the debacle of the early 2000s.
Economic pundits are always spouting off about what the economic trends will be. I remember several of them saying that there would never be a recession, that the thought was laughable, right before we fell into a recession.
People fall for all of this nonsense because they do not think. They seem to have forgotten how, so they believe what they are told by experts, even when those experts, time and again, are wrong. The Practical American needs to think for him or herself.
How? Easy. Do not buy into things you hear without carefully examining them. Get the facts. It may require a little digging, but it's not that hard. Look at the past; that way you can get an idea of how trends develop.
Stay away from rosy optimists and prophets of doom and gloom. The truth almost always lies somewhere in the middle. Do not lock into your own position; as new facts become available, you may have to change.
Use your brain. Never panic. Always look before you leap. Learn to separate facts from opinions and to trust your thoughts more than those of someone getting paid ridiculous amounts to babble on TV. You are as smart as any of them, if you just learn to think.
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