Commentary: Christine Flowers -It's too late to turn down the political temperature Christine Flowers FacebookTwitterEmail One of my favorite allegories is the one about the frog in the pot of water, who got used to the slowing rising temperature of a warming pot and ended up boiled to death. In some ways, I feel as if society has been on the menu for quite some time now. But here we are, in 2021, and life is very different from the way it was when I was born in 1961. It all happened incrementally, while few of us noticed that the temperature was rising in the societal pot.