Do you remember when many State and local gunvernments, in their infinite “wisdom,” decided that the sheeple were wasting too much water when they flushed their powerful bathroom toilets? The gunvernments lowered the pressure in the gunvernment-run sewage systems. Of course, it then became more difficult to flush waste away, thus, people were forced into having to flush 2 to 3 times–instead of once–in order to dispose of the same volume of waste. In the end, they wound up having to use MORE water than they were using with the original environmentally-“unfriendly” sewage system.

Now here comes a story about another gunvernment boondoggle along a similar “sanitary” line. It seems that in the “progressive” state of Washington², certain dishwasher detergents have been banned because they are not environmentally “friendly.” The problem is–hold on for a “shock”–the State-approved “green” brands are not nearly as effective as the traditional brands:

“SPOKANE, Wash. – The quest for squeaky-clean dishes has turned some law-abiding people in Spokane into dishwater-detergent smugglers. They are bringing Cascade or Electrasol in from out of state because the eco-friendly varieties required under Washington state law don’t work as well.”

When it comes to the sheeple still believing after all these decades that gunvernments are here to “improve” their lives, does the expression “cognitive dissonance” ring a bell?

¹Variation on the first line of a poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller.
²In one way, Washington actually is progressive–it has no state income tax.