you have a point about the drinking and smoking ( tobacco)
America needs to find a sober base again , not swayed by the intoxicant du jour . But really , while certainly some drank , not all were drunks and drunks had little impact on the greater social fabric at large . They were just disgusting within their own little circles ( if they were more than social drinkers ) Smoking tobacco evolved over several centuries and resulted in many respiratory deaths , but again little impact upon the very social fabric beyond their own little world ( and second hand smoke) Drugs however : everything from MJ to LSD , from dmt to stp , from coke to smack , they have far more rended the social fabric and caused an entire generation to think in a ‘different’ way , a less respectful way , a less engaged with both our national future and national history way . While precious few became committed farmers , many people turned into avowed leftists and almost all , and the children they spawned and who now in turn propagate their own children ; ALL tend to vote Democrat and think nothing of the vile ravages upon America by Obama and his minions . They don’t support the U.S. military , rather condemn it , just as they did in their stoned out youth , when they uber dissed returning troops from Vietnam . None see the direct correlation between the goals and aims of the Frankfort School euro-commies , and how they played the drug card and infiltrated the educational system in our country . To this day . Their Alinskyite strategies are succeeding . There is a nexus to the now causal attitudes towards recreational drug use and drug intoxicated lifestyle . Talk to any typical 20’s something stoner and you will know .
“America needs to find a sober base again...”
Again? It sounds like you never heard of the Temperance Movement or Prohibition. Drugs have been a social problem throughout our history with social drinking arguably the worst of all.
Tell me, do the innocents killed by drunk driving affect the larger society or does it just affect the little social circle of the murderer like you posit?