I wasn't making fun of you. I assumed you are smart and I said so. I didn't come up with "blood running down the streets" politicians were actually saying suc

I wasn't making fun of you. I assumed you are smart and I said so. I didn't come up with "blood running down the streets" politicians were actually saying such things back then to try to justify their position against raising the speed limit from 55 to 65. I don't know the true motivation behind them making such claims. My best guess is that the Federal Government exerted pressure by means of threatening to remove funding or some such thing. Pure conjecture on my part at this point. My point is that plenty of people are mercilessly voting my comments down yet nobody is taking the time to learn a little history and research what I am saying. I don't need to because I was there and remember the idiocy of the entire thing. For about a year or so media outlets tried their best to push the "speed kills" and "65 is bad" agenda but reality somehow chose to defy them. Blood did not run dow the highway as politicians predicted. Not even close. And so after about a year or so they all stopped talking about it because everyone realized what the politicians were pushing was nonsense. We actually had less accidents with the increase in speed limit. Anyhow, as i said elsewhere, HN is a cargo cult club. If i had come here fully aligned with the crowd and proclaimed how 10 foot wide lanes would save lives I'd collect a bunch of little votes and make all of you happy. Instead an asshole who dares to not be in line with y'all and for that I am personna non gratta. And that's sad. This isn't a place where opposing points of view are welcome at all. I get it. I haven't been reading HN for probably a year. Now I remmber why I stopped.