Right? I was in the same boat. Portugal was the first, right? "Fewer criminals! It works!"
Yeah we now see exactly what they mean when they say fewer criminals... look at NYC and SF -- drug addicts in the gutters, violent criminals out no bail.
Absolutely - because drug use and criminality and mental health crises are symptoms of a sick society. These interventions do nothing to fix the symptoms, which have continued to get worse (speaking about america here), and which will continue to get worse unless the root causes are addressed.
We are very far from having that open and frank discussion about how the plague of single motherhood is destroying the American dream.
Not gonna lie, I thought treating it like a disease was a unique approach, and hoped it produced results.
Oh, it produced results alright...I should have hoped they'd be good.
Right? I was in the same boat. Portugal was the first, right? "Fewer criminals! It works!"
Yeah we now see exactly what they mean when they say fewer criminals... look at NYC and SF -- drug addicts in the gutters, violent criminals out no bail.
Absolutely - because drug use and criminality and mental health crises are symptoms of a sick society. These interventions do nothing to fix the symptoms, which have continued to get worse (speaking about america here), and which will continue to get worse unless the root causes are addressed.
We are very far from having that open and frank discussion about how the plague of single motherhood is destroying the American dream.