For more than a decade, the United States has faced a relentless and heartbreaking increase in fatal drug overdoses driven by synthetic opioids. A new analysis suggests this trend has suddenly reversed due to a major disruption in the global supply chain of illicit fentanyl. Published in Science, the study indicates that regulatory actions taken by the Chinese government, following high-level diplomatic engagement with the Biden administration, may be the primary driver behind this unexpected decline in mortality.
This is the problem with progressive movement, it’s slow. It works but you need patience. People aren’t going to be patient about fent killing their whole town. They’re going to be reactionary and elect a bullshitter who will sell them a lie about how he’ll round up all the people bringing in fent and stop it dead in its tracks. But it never works.
This is the problem with the average voter. They don’t understand that policy takes more than 30 seconds to shows its effects. Biden also almost had inflation beat back too, but the public wanted deflation and wanted it now, and trump said he’d lower prices!
The American electorate genuinely isn’t very bright. I really hate to say it.
Most people on this planet are just straight up dumb as fuck. You can never convince me otherwise. My whole life this has been confirmed over and over and over again.
Even if a person is smart, they still have blind spots and areas in which they are still indeed dumb as fuck. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, those blind spots lie in things like politics, economics, and civics.
Even if person is smart and highly educated he still seems to have the ability to dwell in stupidest bubbles.
I travelled a lot and met people from a lot of countries. Plenty of them were stupid. The country from where I met most stupid people is the USA, both in quantity of people and in how stupid they can be. They win over any other country by a very large margin.
I think depending where you travel people have limited access to education, where as Americans are willfully ignorant and uneducated, which does infact make us come off as dumber. I know really smart people who believe a lot of fucking foolish shit or just don’t know anything outside of their narrow expertise.
The U.S. is unreasonably stupid given the wealth
No you don’t
I assume they also live here and then yeah it does fucking suck to deal with it day to day
Naw, people love saying shit like that about large groups of people.
Yeah, I like the simple example with roads. If you have a two party system where one party builds roads then it’s pretty easy for the other party to say “look how much they’re spending” then get in power they can choose not to invest in roads for a term or two before anyone notices the negative effects of not investing. That true of most policies but its easier for some people to grasp with basic physical infrastructure they need
People who expect immediate rewards are children. It’s no wonder people who are so prone to take advantage of children also find success in promising all sorts of toys and candy for the immature masses.
Seriously, there is connection here, this is why pedo-con theory is a real thing… the more someone is prone to manipulate others, the more likely seem to be to be to use those same manipulation tools on children, or have learned the skill from manipulating actual children.
its actually in disarray, not many “dems” are part of the progressive movements, most are likely moderates or center right at best.
Biden wasn’t typically referred to as a progressive.
Plus, the bullshiter has absolutely no interest in actually solving the problem.
And you can always light the house on fire if you can’t wait for the heat pump or furnace to warm it up enough.
Yeah, making life harder for as many people as possible tends to not have the effect of lowering crime. Investing in people is the way to go. But it takes more than 4 years to really show, sometimes it takes multiple generations before the positive effects are felt. But they are felt.