Extremism Doesn’t Pay – Not Even in America (#44)
The current crop of the American Republican Party leadership have revelled in their extremism, indulged in irresponsible and irrational behaviour, ignored public opinion and the good of the country, and recently partially closed government operations for 22 days. In that time they did a lot of damage to America’s credibility, hurt government workers who were forced to go off work while they played chicken with the incumbent government, inconvenienced the public at large, and induced incredulity in the rest of the World.