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No. Ordinary people don't demand stupid things like that, but governments want those things. So governments invent narratives about the children or whatever is
by zzzcpan 10y ago
No. Ordinary people don't demand stupid things like that, but governments want those things. So governments invent narratives about the children or whatever is the easiest for people to get emotional and protective about and push their agendas onto them. People, of course, being so easily influenced, buy this and approve government initiatives.
- rayiner 10y agoI recommend you watch the PBS special Prohibition. It does a great job of explaining how the prohibition on alcohol was a grass-roots movement by women and Protestants. It was actually against the government's interest, because alcohol taxes at the time made up 1/3 of federal revenue. It'll disabuse you of this notion that "government" is always to blame for how people vote.