I feel like this might be a uniquely American mindset: what we have is terrible. There are better ideas, but they are not perfect, therefore we will stick with the terrible status quo.
See it in our healthcare system too.
See it in our healthcare system too.
Doesn't the EU (and various other countries) still switch back and forth between standard and daylight savings time?
In the meantime, all EU countries observe a summer time that starts and ends on the same day across the EU.
I prefer standard time since in winter using DST would mean dark skies until 9 am. But most people here seem to enjoy how in summer the sun doesn't set until 10 pm. So, whoever touches this topic will end up getting burned by either side and no one dares to change it or suggest it (for now). So the terrible status quo continues.
[0] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/28/when-will-the-...
Something that does seem unusually American (although I’m sure not uniquely) is: We all agree this thing is bad, and something should be done. But the primary way to make big changes is to have one side push it and make concessions to the other side, to get it done. Nobody is willing to make concessions for something we all agree is good, so the good thing will never get done.
And also, we all agree it is bad, but our solutions are different, maybe even just in name, so we can’t let it be solved because that would give the other team a W.
Or Imperial measurement when everyone else is on metric
Or middle endian date when...