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by bismuthsalt
2079 days ago
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Less than you'd think. Circa 2020, some mainstream positions in a west coast city that is politically 85% leftwing: * Cannabis already legalized. Driving kids to school past huge "Amazing Cannabis" posters all over the city. * De facto policy to not interfere with the ever growing mass of homeless addicts in the streets. Next steps: * Legalize all drugs. * State sponsored "safe" injection sites. * Abolish the police. The only stretch is "in schools". There is a palpable sense of a loss of any and all moral barriers. Worse, erst shunned behaviors must be promoted, if only to spite the other side. In the wake of sexual liberation we got free condom dispensers in schools. Not much of a stretch to imagine that drug liberation, the next Chesterton fence to tear down, will bring free drug dispensers. Teach abstinence? Pshaw, that'll never work. Addiction therapy? That's evil, man. |
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Our county has attempted to open two whole safe injection sites and it has been extremely contentious.
There is absolutely no political will to abolish the police. The single city council member who advocated ir is now in a recall fight.
Public users are left to their devices perhaps in part out of some attempt at humanity but there is budgetary pressure for this as well. The county jails are routinely overfull and the police would rather hold more dangerous offenders there.
Just because people don't go around clutching their pearls at the sight of people using drugs on the street doesn't mean they are indifferent or in support. When I go to the beach I get sand in my shorts but I don't write my congressman about it.
You can agree or disagree with the the policies. You can praise or bemoan the outcome of policy. But you are weaving circumstance and conditions into a tapestry of intent.