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This sounds like the old, worn-out argument that "we're too big and diverse to have nice things like the Nordics".

With that can't do attitude of course things will never get fixed in the US.

This argument is more palatable than the truth it masks, which is that we are unwilling to spend money and time making nice things like the Nordics do, and many wealthy people like it that way because it keeps their taxes low.

I invite all of you that hold this position to travel across the country and do in-depth qualities one studies with interviews, surveys, actual population observations and see if these very simplistic ideas still hold true. How's that for data?

I never mentioned "can't do". We cant do it the Nordic way.

End the drug war is a simple solution to all of America's drug problems. American politicians and prison-industrial-complex likes drug addicts. That is why USA has a drug problem.

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