Portugal doesn’t have a narco state on its border pumping drugs over the border, nor does it have a culture of excess that the USA has. You can not compare that tiny country to the USA.
I agree that housing issues are separate but the problems in CA right now all stem from legalized drugs.
I love hearing people blame the war on drugs for Mexico's problems and try to relate it to the Mafia and prohibition here. Americans never had a problem with organized crime grabbing busloads of people and making them fight to the death. We never had criminals driving around honking at you repeatedly to see if you'd react just to shoot you dead if you did that was so common it had a name (red light, green light in Mexico). Kidnappings for ransom were never commonplace like they are in Mexico.
The extent to which the people of Mexico embrace that lifestyle is on them. We has a small criminal element. There, nearly everyone knows someone who does shit that is worse than anything we ever had.
Our war on drugs is stupid, but if that's the sole or even primary reason that Mexico is in the state it's in then why isn't America in the same state? White Americans aren't in that state. The only people that act like that are the people who brought it over from Mexico and other shitholes when they came.
"Yeah, I didn't have a lot of opportunities growing up so I HAD to start murdering people for peanuts."
Portugal doesn’t have a narco state on its border pumping drugs over the border, nor does it have a culture of excess that the USA has. You can not compare that tiny country to the USA.
I agree that housing issues are separate but the problems in CA right now all stem from legalized drugs.
I love hearing people blame the war on drugs for Mexico's problems and try to relate it to the Mafia and prohibition here. Americans never had a problem with organized crime grabbing busloads of people and making them fight to the death. We never had criminals driving around honking at you repeatedly to see if you'd react just to shoot you dead if you did that was so common it had a name (red light, green light in Mexico). Kidnappings for ransom were never commonplace like they are in Mexico.
The extent to which the people of Mexico embrace that lifestyle is on them. We has a small criminal element. There, nearly everyone knows someone who does shit that is worse than anything we ever had.
Our war on drugs is stupid, but if that's the sole or even primary reason that Mexico is in the state it's in then why isn't America in the same state? White Americans aren't in that state. The only people that act like that are the people who brought it over from Mexico and other shitholes when they came.
"Yeah, I didn't have a lot of opportunities growing up so I HAD to start murdering people for peanuts."