Why does everything have to be “fixed” after a casualty situation?

With no consideration that the “fix” to whatever problem may actually have a much worse consequence?

Like with 9/11. The “Patriot Act” was the fix and now we live in a surveillance state where anything you say online can bite you in the arse years later. Where the government has been busted illegally spying on its own citizens and no one seems to care?

Like with school shootings. The “fix” for many is to either make schools like prisons or take away more guns from law abiding citizens. Either way, we lose.

Or healthcare. The “fix” is to tax the populace to death so we can mandate coverage for the poor - and that ends up funneling MORE money to the wrong people leaving us with less coverage.

Or social equality. The “fix” is a forced equality of outcome actually leading us back into practical segregation.

I wish we had leaders who had the nuts, the ballsack, the testicular fortitude to say, even in the midst of a huge crisis - We don’t NEED a “fix”. We need to rally together and move on

No one has nuts anymore. And those that do only use a crisis to expand their power.

I guess the real fix is in.