[sphinx]

especially the notion that we "need" the guvgoons to jail hundreds of thousands of drug users. Nobody jailed them before 1914, and America was so safe that hardly anyone locked their doors.

There was no welfare state and we didn't have antibiotics, so the problem tended to be self-limiting. Chronic alcoholics and addicts, once they reached the point of unemployability, tended not to live very long.

[underground]

Yea you just reminded me why I came up with my old tagline...

Socialist government: saving us from the mistakes of socialist government since 1913

I’m putting it back in the rotation!

[autumnraine]

You are correct.