Continuing....
I had a light quarrel with my father. He was pissed off, apparently, about the plastic bag issue in California and our resolution of that. He is in North Carolina. So after his animated disgust that we would encroach on his god gifted freedom to pollute, I asked him, what's it to him if California wants to clean its environment? What happened to state's rights? His only response was, as goes California, so goes the country? Well, that may be the case, but we don't force conservative states to adopt reusable bags or to pay a dime for a plastic bag. That's the power of a good idea at work.
So, it's always like that. It's usually a great idea, you don't have to follow suit if you choose not to do good, but the kicker is you guys go nutso over every small thing we do.