Crime or Punishment: How a 1990s Hysteria Forced A Difficult Choice on the Clinton White House

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1. I lived in one of those

high crime areas when it was getting bad back then, I recall that there were few viable solutions offered... and we had sNewt for Speaker who wrote that contract on America which has been largely successful in trashing the middle class and exacerbating all issues.

Yeah, the current generation of new voters aren't observing some fundamental realities of our governing system. You can't just throw out everything and start anew with everything. This is one of the results of eliminating civics education and education in general. Sad and hard to get people to actually learn the process and how we arrive at policy, according to our agreed upon social contract. Sure it always needs adjustment but that's because everything changes over time and our social contract should reflect some of those changes as long as they benefit the lives of all.