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The enabling of heroin addiction goes hand in hand with the enabling of homeless encampments and of petty crime. Thanks to Seattle liberalism, such enablement is rampant here. Thanks to liberal policies at the local, state, and national level, addicts are enabled to carry on with their addiction lifestyle.
This also fits Portland, Oregon to a tee.
During the Obama years, our addict and homeless problem just exploded.
You can't even go downtown anymore.
Drug addition isn't a liberal/conservative issue, it's a human tragedy issue. If no one in your family and friends group has been afflicted, consider yourself very lucky.
This exactly.
Whether in West Virginia or Seattle, people everywhere struggle with drug addiction, alcohol addiction, eating disorders, etc.
Human vulnerability knows no political affiliation.
I never forget hearing a response from conservative talk host Mike Reagan when a caller asked him regarding proposals to cut welfare state spending: "What do we do about all the drug addicts and alcoholics?" Reagan's reply: "step over them."
They're not really people, anyway, are they?
Last edited by Dane_in_LA; 04-04-2017 at 06:21 PM..
Conservative among the percentage that actually vote anyway. The ones living in cardboard patched trailers without even running water and power living on meth and/or opiates don't bother to vote. And the ratio could easily skew toward those types in some areas. We have our share of that here in NV. Meth is still king but heroin and such is gaining ground. I live in Carson City now. There's an outlying area, considered a suburb of sorts but in another county, that's rife with the drug culture. And it has nothing to do with political ideology. Meth heads don't vote. Probably can't even tell you who the president is.
If hard drug users aren't voting, then it really doesn't matter. Seattle or WV. Nevada or Georgia. I just get tired of the "lets blame liberals for everything", line.
Of course addiction isn't liberal or conservative, but the community reaction to it certainly is. I don't know what the reaction has been in red states, but I do know what it has been here in this area.
The reaction is one of ongoing empowerment and enablement of addicts. Google 'safe injection site' and the only regions I see coming up are Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. Not Kentucky, not Indiana, and not West VA.
The enabling of heroin addiction goes hand in hand with the enabling of homeless encampments and of petty crime. Thanks to Seattle liberalism, such enablement is rampant here. Thanks to liberal policies at the local, state, and national level, addicts are enabled to carry on with their addiction lifestyle.
I never forget hearing a response from conservative talk host Mike Reagan when a caller asked him regarding proposals to cut welfare state spending: "What do we do about all the drug addicts and alcoholics?" Reagan's reply: "step over them."
Addicts will carry on whether we enable them or not. And it's interesting that you bring up West Virginia. That is where the highest rates of opioid overdoses are. Also, meth, and oxycontin use is rampant in the Appalachia corridor, particularly Kentucky. Tennessee is quite bad too. Markedly higher than Washington state.
These addicts and their aftermath of self destruction is a scourge on all of us.
With Seattle in the news so much with the coddling of and giving sanctuary to illegal aliens plus these safe zones for heroine users to shoot up and never mind the crime that permeates from these unlawful practices Seattle is not on my list to ever visit.
I think you may not have to go to Seattle to see the range of this epidemic.
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