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To: PeterPrinciple

“There was a very good reason for the temperance movement.”

There was - and Temperance made most of its gains before Prohibition, through social pressure.


50 posted on 05/17/2024 8:18:08 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

There was - and Temperance made most of its gains before Prohibition, through social pressure.


and that is why studying history is so important. Socially and morally our society may be lower now than then even.

But what is to be learned is it takes a generation to change things, there is no magic bullet which everyone wants.

another law which many conservatives want, WILL NOT FIX THINGS in and of itself.

Social pressure is each of us individually with a short sword. not the other guy or even Trump.


52 posted on 05/17/2024 9:16:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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