It’s wildly popular to use Prohibition as The Prime example of why cherry-picked mandates are dismissed because they “won’t work.”
i think it’s lazy, as well as convenient and manipulative.
The world has changed a lot since the Prohibition years.
Those were years when most people knew nothing of the subjugation now taken for granted. It was a different time+place, in every way. Today’s culture has many voting for more subjugation, not less, and to raise their own taxes, convinced government knows best, and it will all be ok, as long as more money is thrown in.
Each year, thousands of new laws are passed. How many increase freedoms and/or lower taxes of legal citizens??
Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 115 biennial terms so that more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.
That’s just federal law. ^^ Add state+local laws, too.
His point about exploiting tribalism (for political leveraging) is now off the charts. To a mind-numbing extent.
Government should not be in competition with hollywood, sports, or even literature, for entertainment value.
It’s primitive and destructive. i hope, “this, too, shall pass.” it’s bad enough to have elections every 4 years.
24/7/365 is neurotic.