I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
From David Harsanyi
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
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