West Virginia

When babies died many years ago, and perhaps today, despite the best efforts of the parents, doctors often attributed it to "failure to thrive." Sometimes our aging parents die the same way, refusing their meds and believing highly trained healthcare providers don't know what's best. Watching my home state of West Virginia from afar, I get the eerie feeling that political entities can do the same thing. Sane people can be so outnumbered by the impaired that death from "failure to thrive" is always imminent.