If the Comments section under a U.S. Fox News roundtable discussion on President-elect Donald Trump's "end Daylight Savings" proposal is anything to go by, the vast majority of Americans are highly supportive.
On December 13, the President-elect released a "tweet" (or is it now "an X"?) stating:
"The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn't! Daylight Saving Time is very inconvenient and costly to our nation."
At the time I watched this
Fox News segment this Sunday mid-afternoon, of the approximately 50 most recent viewer comments, three wanted Daylight Savings kept, six wanted a consistent time all year around but didn't care whether it was natural time or Daylight Savings, with the remaining 40 or so commenters (representing the overwhelming majority) expressing everything from their disapproval to their outright hatred of the whole "daylight savings" concept.
Where a reason was given, more often than not it related in some way to the unhealthy disruption of the body's natural Circadian rhythm.
"PLEASE get rid of Daylight Savings Time!"
"Arizona doesn’t have it and does great."
"It is better to allow our bodies to adjust to the natural daylight hours and not follow a twice a year abrupt time change."
"Daylight savings is so stupid! Thanks Trump to stop this!"
"OMG !!!! please please please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Everybody has been talking for a lifetime. Trump has the balls to do it."
"Just follow nature to sleep, wake up, and work. Never liked daylight saving."
"Please please please make this happen! Standard Time for all!"
"Yes please, get rid of it."
"The time changes wreak havoc with kids having to adjust bedtimes for school, adults going to work, etc. Just get rid of it altogether."
"Thank God!!!!"
"We voted against it here in Kamalifornia, I mean California, around 4 years ago & it's still not implemented. Typical of Gruesome Newsom. Unless there's money & power involved Newsom won't do anything."
"Thank God. Been asking for this my entire life."
"That would be so awesome!"
"Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Support Permanent Standard Time."
"Daylight savings time, be gone."
"Yes! I'm so tired of this ridiculous practice that offers minimal benefits, as opposed to significant negative results on mental and physical health. Thile Trump administration is going to address issues from soup to nuts and get America on the right/best track for generations to come."
"Daylight saving time was a necessity when candles and oil lamps were used at night. It was to conserve resources that were expensive to common people at the time. With the invention of power plants and electric lights, DST is more of a tradition than a necessity."
And on and on, scrolling down the screen, they went.
Seems Donald Trump has his finger on the pulse of his nation on even the long-engrained and largely unspoken issues.
Pity our politicians (neither left nor right nor "centre") can't lay claim to the same talent and "balls".
Let's see . . . just off the top of my head, without even thinking about it, here's a couple of issues where there's a complete and arrogant willingness to ride roughshod over the Kiwi majority:
Those recent examples would be the unleashing of Genetically Modified Organism production into our (supposedly) "clean and green" agricultural (and related) ecospheres, and the forced fluoridation (i.e. a proven neurotoxin, especially to children's developing brains) of all New Zealanders' water supplies.
It's too disheartening to apply good thinking time to the infuriating exercise of listing all such strong-arm examples. It takes away from the time that now needs to be spent on how one can avoid / mitigate / detox from these toxins wilfully deployed against the New Zealand populace.
