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William Otis's avatar

There's a national problem here, alright, but hardly the one Bernie Sanders thinks it is. The problem is one Paul and I have written about often: Cratering standards. When we're willing to tolerate (indeed, increasingly celebrate) fat bodies instead of taut ones (you know, "fat shaming" is so awful); sit around looking at the smart phone all day; and think that taking a few "recreational" drugs is OK, this is what you're going to get. Fat people and druggies don't live real long lives, as we've known since forever, and accepting this stuff as just an "alternative life style" toward which we dare not be "judgmental" essentially guaranteed what we're getting now.

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Doug Israel's avatar

That's the problem with the mainstream left in a nutshell. They think everything can be fixed with a government program. And by government program they mean of course establishing an inevitably corrupt money pit. Perhaps if they created a team of 500 Daniel PatrickMoynahans and actually listened to and implemented their suggestions even if they were politically inconvienient a government program could help. In point of fact, it's probably the understandable loss of faith in government and all authoritative institutions that is contributing to this.

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