[greene66]

The reason I don’t believe there were all those maladies in the 19th and early 20th century is because of the societal institutions from family to churches to community, which were strong. Today’s society is far different, constituted of vastly larger percentages of feral, amoral, deviant scum, cultivated by a combination of massive government dependence and a grotesquely vile culture.

[JRandomFreeper]

The breakdown of 'of the societal institutions from family to churches to community' started in the early 1900s, when drug laws were enacted, along with a plethora of other unconstitutional b.s.

/johnny

[TigersEye]

Coincidentally all those societal changes began almost exactly when the Federal government decided to enact laws to tax us and control us with punitive criminal laws.

[PeterPrinciple]

The reason I don’t believe there were all those maladies in the 19th and early 20th century is

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My study of history shows that in the 1830 or there about society was about as low as it could go. Family in a bad way and per capita consumption of alcohol at an all time high. This began a shift to correct , late 80’s revivalism and ended in 1918 with prohibition and then the slide began again.

So there is hope but I do tend to agree with you.