Yesterday, 07:02 PM
Again, wasn't it Madison who said this only works with a moral people? We don't have that. Even in 1776 there were bad actors but do you think what's going on now would have been tolerated? I don't think so! Would it have been put up with in 1950? No. Now, I agree with you about many of the causes but that's another issue and will take longer to reverse, if it happens, which is doubtful. This is like debating how it came to be that Jeffery Dahmer ate people instead of locking his ass up first. On the one had, everything you brought up needs addressing/fixing and, on the other hand, the results of bad actions/not doing the right things have to be dealt with, now.
I completely disagree that the problems are exaggerated. When in your life do you remember all of these homeless drug addicts living on the streets of American cities? When do you remember all of these fentanyl deaths? BTW, though I'm old, now, I came of age in the 70s and have done my share of drugs and it was free for all back then. Nothing like what we're seeing was happening then except for maybe Haight Ashbury which was pretty ground zero for what was to come.
I don't want my freedoms impinged upon for a war on drugs but I'm saying that when man made dangerous drugs are legalized then you lose freedom because of mentally ill, drug addicted, violent lunatics become a threat to sane human beings. How free are people in San Francisco who have to leave their car windows down and hatch backs/trunks open so one of the degenerates doesn't smash the windows? How free are little kids or adults that have to walk through dangerous homeless encampments and filth to go about wherever they live? When I was young and living at home, my parents subscribed to National Geographic. I remember an issue on Bombay India that showed pics of this city with sky scrapers and other modern things you'd see in a big city, with people living on the sidewalks, in view of those buildings, in cardboard boxes with other trash as roofs for them. I was stunned that something like that could exist and at what a shithole the place was. Now, we're there! So, no, it's not exaggerated.
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