The American roadway, a metaphor for our country

Having just completed a road trip of several hundred miles, it occurs that the great American roadway is a metaphor of our country.

The vast, if not overwhelming majority of my fellow travelers were great citizens.  They followed the laws, were courteous to one another, allowing people to change lanes without problem, and shared the roadways as good citizens do.  Whether in city traffic or on the open roadways separate from urban areas, we each travelled to our respective destinations without a worry about or for the majority of our fellow sojourners.  These folks remind me of the millions and millions of my fellow citizens, each pursuing his/her objectives, without interfering with or interference from one another.

But just as in regular daily life, there were those on the roadways recently travelled who were not good citizens.  

These self-centered individuals were noticeable by their selfishness and disregard for the wellbeing and safety of their fellow travelers.  Speeding, tailgating, rapidly changing lanes, cutting off other vehicles, driving 10 MPH below the posted limit in the fast lanes, passing in the safety lanes, talking on their cell phones, and weaving in and out of traffic.  These and other actions characterized those individuals who care not for their fellow travelers, but only for themselves.  Endangering others without a care, they demand preference from all those around them.  Self centered to the extreme, they drive as if those the roadways of the nation exist for them and them alone.  Treating their fellow sojourners as interlopers, they operate their motor vehicles with disdain for anyone and everyone else.

Makes me think of our country.  The vast majority pursuing life, while respecting others.  A minority, operating outside of the norm, without a care of the danger they create for others.