HL Mencken’s first rule of pragmatic politics: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”A wise man once said: If you pull into the pits after a race and your rear bumper has more damage than your front bumper: Son, you ain't moving fast enough!