Mark (Henschel)-- It is disappointing that latter-day Democrats, who claim
to be "progressive," have been useless as far as promoting the metric
system is concerned. The modern U.S. movement started in the 1970s with
Republican Gerald Ford, but Republican Ronald Reagan slowed it down.
However, businessmen of both parties are now largely in support of
metrication because of international advantages. Barack Obama has been
useless.
Nevertheless, as I have written before, it may be best for the government
to keep out of it and let business drive the movement. That way, there
isn't the ignorant public resistance encountered. Metrication just
happens without opposition. If the U.S. government were as efficient as
the Australian government, we wouldn't have to worry, but in the last
decade more more, the U.S. bureaucracy has become incompetent and corrupt.
An example of recent conversation, without much government involvement, is
the complete conversion of the lighting industry to the use of lumens and
kelvins, driven by Compact Fluorescent Lights, units which had been
virtually unknown to the public before, but you didn't hear any resistance
to the conversion on January 1, 2015. --Martin Morrison
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