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Rose_Anne's avatar

Good food for thought, Jim. Thank you.

Another writer whose work I enjoyed recently illustrated the Overton window shift and how this snail's pace creep of forfeiting responsibilities is just slow enough we don't raise a fuss. (Her article lauded Trump for ratcheting it back: https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/littlejohn-trump-has-blown-open-the-system-for-conservatives-everywhere/62304?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-02-19&utm_campaign=Western+Standard+s+Daily+Newsletter, and I hope you don't hit the paywall.)

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Steve Owen's avatar

This pretty much says it all. We have a long history of doing the wrong things for the right reasons. Anytime a policy is proposed, the questions to ask are 1) is this important enough to send someone with a gun to your neighbor's door to enforce it? And, 2) will the end result be better than the result from allowing free choice on this issue?

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