It's for the chilruns.
Posted on 12/03/2008 10:30:35 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
This Friday, Dec. 5, is the 75th anniversary of Repeal Day, the day America repealed its disastrous alcohol prohibition.
Prohibition was the pièce de résistance of the early 20th-century progressives' grand social engineering agenda. It failed, of course. Miserably.
It did reduce overall consumption of alcohol in the U.S., but that reduction came largely among those who consumed alcohol responsibly. The actual harm caused by alcohol abuse was made worse, thanks to the economics of prohibitions.
Black market alcohol was of dubious origin, unregulated by market forces. The price premium that attaches to banned substances made the alcohol that made it to consumers more potent and more dangerous. And, of course, organized crime rose and flourished thanks to the new market created by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act.
So hospitalizations related to alcohol soared. And so did violent crime. Corruption flourished, as law enforcement officials in charge of enforcing prohibition went on the take, from beat cops all the way up to the office of the United States Attorney General. Even the U.S. Senate had a secret, illegal stash of booze for its members and their staffs.
“Progressives” had nothing to do with Prohibition. It was a demand of Conservatives and the Religious.
So if drugs were legalized no one would grow or brew their own?
Would crack be legal? Meth? LSD? Heroin? Ice?
How about a cure for cancer? A cure for AIDS?
Would people not be able to making any claims about a drug but still sell it openly on the market?
And would the DEA go under the ATF? Or would these drugs not be treated like Alcohol and Tobacco?
It’s a pipe dream. Literally.
Don’t forget the first “feminists.” The whole suffrage movement was PRO prohibition.
William Jennings Bryan was a conservative?
They too, fall victim to their shortsightedness regarding the limited scope of government. Liberals ain't alone, just uglier.
Well said.
if drugs were legalized, the cost of producing drugs will go down and more people will be able to profit from selling crack to kids.
It's for the chilruns.
well their problem was that they were opposed to alcohol as a matter of ideological purity and not based on whether it was responsible for increased crime or not.
And the same is true for libertarians who claim they know what it takes to reduce crime but I’d like to see if they can do a better job than Rudy in NYC.
Heh heh. Good satire.
Never forget socialism is really just the secularization of a very old Christian heresy. Go look up Joachim of Fiore, the Adamites, the Bretheren of the Free Spirit, the Taborites, and of course the Anabaptists. They all thought it was God's mission for them to create Heaven on Earth.
What if the kids don’t want the drugs and would rather have a life? What if they just said no, like Nancy Reagan advised?
You either believe in people or you don’t believe in people. If you think they are all stupid and weak than...
1. I’m not gonna argue with you, most people are stupid.
2. We need wiser and cooler heads in Gubmint to show us the right way.
In which case we are as liberal and progressive as they are. Congratulations.
hey you get to hook them for life and make a lot of money...why not? We can also throw in some melamine in their milk, just like China.
I know you are being facetious. But social engineers only need a small window. They’ll drive a Mack Truck through it.
I believe in a system of checks and balances. There are stupid people in govt and there are smart people in govt. There are stupid people outside of govt and there are smart people outside of govt.
I may not have a cure, but lessening stress may reduce it's incidence. Want to live to 104 like grandma?
Move into the country, cut firewood, milk a cow, and forget about property taxes, income taxes, inheritance taxes, cable bills, phone bills, utility bills, wind farms, green energy, bailouts, recessions, black presidents, green presidents (redundant, I know), social overhead, gay marriage, gay overhead, gas prices, gay gas prices, anything gay, global warming, global cooling, stock market crash, depression II, Wall Street, The Big Three (boy, is that a misnomer).
It is to this end that I raise a 22oz. glass to my fellow Americans in the hope that they too may escape from the toxic reality brought to us each and every day by the co-conspirators in the media whose aim it seems is to depress us into early graves. Screw them and the networks they rode in on.
Catholics have long been the mainstay of the Democrat machines of the big cities and were notorious wets. The first Temperance fight was between the Whigs and Democrats of the 1830-40s. With the Democrats winning the backing of the Irish and German Catholic groups they prevented any national laws but the issue was a critical one in almost every election local, state and national.
Progressives were not the main force in probition nor as important as the traditional Christian groups. German socialists (and there were lots of them) were pro-booze, too.
The smart people in govt realize they are stupid. The stupid people in govt and outside think they are smart. That’s the difference.
Want to see some real social engineering? Look at the MSM and American pop culture. They have dumbed down the country to the point where the masses can be manipulated to vote for someone who doesn’t know how many states there are in the US.
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