The country is having some weird mass nervous breakdown, with the right spreading fear and disinformation that is amplified by the poisonous echo chamber that is the modern media environment.
Playing a wide game is a highway to hopelessness unless there is quick distribution from the breakdown, with the right amount of resources committed to delivering it, plus pinpoint passing: flat or deep, short or long.
She doesn't think breakdown is the right word for what happened to her, "because I didn't stop working", but continues: "One time I was sick with an infection, I was in hospital and when I got out I'd lost a lot of weight.
The left, invoking Trainspotting, blames addiction on poverty; the right, invoking Iain Duncan Smith, on social breakdown.
"We didn't play in the right areas and England disrupted every breakdown possible, played in the right areas and hence why the came away with the win.
They've been losing their structures a little bit, losing support sometimes, and occasionally after making good breaks and looking like they've taken the right option, they get to the breakdown and either turn the ball over or give away penalties.
Both Roberts and Tuilagi would have made dents in the Aussie defence but the support didn't quite get the breakdown right at the weekend and that resulted in slow ball, turnovers and penalties conceded.
A breakdown of the basic features is in the chart to the right.
In 1964, the ideological position advocated by Barry Goldwater was nearly beyond the realm of the G.O.P. imagination; by 1980, Goldwater Republicanism was Reagan Republicanism Newt Gingrichh's 1994 Contract with America was well to the right of Reagan; and, in 2012, Mitt Romney ran to the right of the breakdown lane.
Right now, the breakdown of the committee is ten Democrats to nine Republicans.
