Nicely stolen line from Jim Jeffries. What is better, legalize it all, including heroin and fentanyl, child pornography...after all you guys believe liberalizing anything must be good for society. Except the opposite is coming clear. The more we leave individuals and corporations to their own devices the dummer the ideas and the deeper the holes they fall into. Protecting the stupid majority from harming itself and others by regulating the shit out of things is the cheapest way we can deal with stupidity.
Trickle down economics is why the American middle class is much smaller than it was in 1980. Without the economic brake of regulations and demand-side economics championed (somewhat) by the Democratic Party we would be a Russian style oligopoly by now.
We need a Teddy Roosevelt type leader to destroy the conglomeration of corporations, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it. All we get are corrupt politicians with their hand out for bribes after they leave office. How about our former President Obama going from community leader to owner of $20+ million homes -- gee I wonder where he got the money from? What do you expect from someone who spent 8 years in office sucking banker's cocks? The only way the US can have real change is through economic collapse -- sadly it is what humans understand best aka suffering. Unfortunately the MMT psychos who run this country believe endless free money is the solution to all problems. The US will soon learn the lesson of all fallen empires, currency collapse leads to revolution.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/245255/750-million-worldwide-migrate.aspx Top Desired Destinations for Potential Migrants To which country would you like to move? 2010-2012 2015-2017 Estimated number of adults % % (in millions) United States 22 21 158 Canada 6 6 47 Germany 4 6 42 France 5 5 36 Australia 4 5 36 United Kingdom 7 4 34 Saudi Arabia 5 3 24 Spain 4 3 21 Japan 2 2 17 Italy 3 2 15 Switzerland 2 2 14 United Arab Emirates 2 2 12 Singapore 1 1 11 Sweden 1 1 9 China 1 1 9 New Zealand 1 1 9 Russia 1 1 8 Netherlands 1 1 7 South Africa 1 1 7 Brazil 1 1 6 South Korea 1 1 6 Turkey * 1 6 *Less than 0.5% GALLUP WORLD POLL, 2015-2017
There is no middle class. You are either wage slave or upper class (meaning can afford to live from capital income alone).
I'm not exactly sure what "liberalizing" means in this context. Child pornography is and should be a crime; being a consumer of it is and should be a crime. Selling heroin and fentanyl is and should be a crime. Consuming it should probably not be a crime. It's sad and pathetic to use it, and physically and mentally disastrous. But a crime? Criminalizing its use has arguably achieved nothing other than incarceration and the considerable disruptive costs associated with it to both the user and society: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/10/12/us-disastrous-toll-criminalizing-drug-use Of course its use should be discouraged, but the cost/benefit of use criminalization does not appear to be a good trade.