LAGOM, a very useful word

I think it has it's origin in an old Viking term, describing an amount enough for everybody lag-om, team around. For example: the mjod horn is going around the camp fire. The amount of mjod in the horn is enough to give all of them to drink is LAGOM.
The Swedes use the word for everything. Lagom temperature of the bath water, not too hot, not too cold. Lagom has defined Sweden for decades in politics. And I think it's about time it comes to us here in the US too.

I listened to Glen Beck the other day on the radio and he said it perfectly. We have two ways of thinking in this country and both ways are ran by the radicals.

The radical left wants government in everything, health care, retirement, Unions, your wallet...
Let ME decide, not anyone else, OK?

The radical right wants government in my bedroom, in my family decisions, in my personal life...
Let ME decide, not anyone else, OK?

It's like San Fransisco vs the bible belt small town.

I'm neither of them, nor are the rest of America. San Francisco wants to believe America is like them, but America is not!
The bible belt town people want the rest of America to do it their way, but we don't want to!

Here's where we need to be LAGOM.
Let the radicals on both side be the way they want but don't impose any of it on the rest of us.
Leave it open, let the laws be as far away from the radicals as possible.

I don't want to live in a Swedish way, where they are more concern about what others think than to preserve their own traditions. Where the flag has become a racist symbol. Where it's OK to wait for 12 hours at the emergency room. Where a rapist gets 5 years in prison and better food than old Miss Greta in the nursing home.

I don't want to live the bible belt way either, where they try to implement their twisted religious views in politics near and far. Where I have to drive over county lines to get a beer. Where gays have to hide. Where the teens get pregnant because they teach abstinence only.

I was hoping to get to more of the middle ground of America when we move to Colorado Springs... maybe the Mega Churches of radicals and all the migrated Californians have learned to live in peace, learned to keep their views to their blog spots and otherwise keep them to themselves...