So where's the disaster?

Below is a record of the automotive fatality rate per million miles driven in the US. It's been a fairly steady rate of decline for the last 63 years. And the elimination of the 55 speed limit, the introduction of cellphones and then texting didn't budge the declining death rates one bit. Which is odd because I recall being told that allowing drivers to drive the speeds that the highways and cars were designed for would slaughter untold numbers. And I know that our "saviors" criminalized various mobile phone behaviors only because of the incredible carnage that was occurring on the nation's roads. Why when the laws were put into effect the horrible spike in deaths atrributable to these sinister technologies immediately subsided. Wait. There were no spikes in deaths. It was all a lie to criminalize even more human behavior. Particularly for young men and women who really, really need more government "help" to make them even more perfect.

HL Mencken was right when he said all of practical politics was just the fabrication of imaginary hobgoblins to frighten the citizenry into forking ever more money and power to our statist saviors. Only today they don't even pretend that they're saving us. They just make stuff up like "one in five college women are sexually assaulted" secure in the knowledge that all "right" thinking people will swallow it.

They say we deserve the government we get and boy are we getting it good and hard right now.

Oh and remember this time series the next time someone starts belly aching about how automakers are "neglecting safety". More hobgoblin hysteria, I'm afraid.