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> If you want to make a change that half the country is dead against, all the systems of balance of power will work against it (two chambers - one by headcount

> If you want to make a change that half the country is dead against, all the systems of balance of power will work against it (two chambers - one by headcount the other by states, filibuster, presidential veto, high threshold of consensus for changing the constitution), as it should. which is why prohabition never happened.

TeeMassive 4y ago
Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime. At the time (and still to this day) alcohol and drugs made and destroyed empires. The Dutch Empire was based on Gin. The British Empire on Opium and Rhum. Russia on Vodka. France had Bourbon.
- pjc50 4y ago
  > Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime I have never seen this claim made before and would like some evidence for it.
  - TeeMassive 4y ago
    https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibition-alcohol-public-health-crime-benefits https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
  > Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime. Is that a bit like "the sun stopped coming up, until the sun came up the next day" ?
  - TeeMassive 4y ago
    Or that they saw the immediate effect but the consequences after that. Hindsight is 20/20.
- parkingrift 4y ago
  You could also rewrite this sentence to say that prohibition created organized crime.
- naasking 4y ago
  > Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime. I think you mean, that nearly everyone became a criminal overnight when Prohibition was passed, because they didn't just stop drinking.
twblalock 4y ago
Prohibition and the temperance movement in general enjoyed wide popular support, and many states had already introduced restrictions on alcohol before the constitution was amended.

TeeMassive 4y ago

Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime. At the time (and still to this day) alcohol and drugs made and destroyed empires. The Dutch Empire was based on Gin. The British Empire on Opium and Rhum. Russia on Vodka. France had Bourbon.

pjc50 4y ago
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime I have never seen this claim made before and would like some evidence for it.
- TeeMassive 4y ago
  https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibition-alcohol-public-health-crime-benefits https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...
PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime. Is that a bit like "the sun stopped coming up, until the sun came up the next day" ?
- TeeMassive 4y ago
  Or that they saw the immediate effect but the consequences after that. Hindsight is 20/20.
parkingrift 4y ago
You could also rewrite this sentence to say that prohibition created organized crime.
naasking 4y ago
> Crime virtually disappeared after Prohibition was passed until the apparition of organized crime. I think you mean, that nearly everyone became a criminal overnight when Prohibition was passed, because they didn't just stop drinking.

twblalock 4y ago

Prohibition and the temperance movement in general enjoyed wide popular support, and many states had already introduced restrictions on alcohol before the constitution was amended.