Mentalities, the general tenor of our times, have also changed as well, with ideas like “toxic masculinity,” “boss girls,” and “living your best life” floating around, and permeating, perhaps even dominating and directing a lot of young people’s thoughts, apparently making marrying young and starting a family a lot less expected and palatable than it once was.

A talk on demographics I referred to here concluded that population decline was caused by the average age of having a child increasing from 24 to 35, and that those 35 year olds are nowhere near as vital as 24 year olds, and tend not to have as many children, or perhaps no children after all.

Governments all over the world have tried to get their citizens to have more children with no real success, so this is a hard thing to accomplish, and mere monetary incentives apparently won’t do it.

So, apparently some sort of wide ranging program of all sorts of benefits will have to be created to stimulate such births.

they have tried demand reduction regimes in Switzerland and the Netherlands, they had to discontinue them, they were largely influenced by Soros networks,
including his Johnny Appleseed, Ethan Nadelman,

Doss their resignation/retirement insulate them somewhat from being hauled before Congress to testify, and to be charged with whatever crimes they might have committed as government employees?

Is seems that way.

While those on the Left are trying to dismiss Bongino as just a podcaster, he has decades of experience, first, as a NYC policeman and, then, as a Secret Service agent, he’s been around the block a few times, he knows Washington, the players and their games, is well-informed, probably knows where a lot of the bodies are buried, and has a realistic, hard-charging, no-nonsense attitude.

I expect that many leftist/Obama-Biden/rogue FBI agents are terrified of the combination of Kash Patel as Director and Dan Bongino as Deputy Director .

I’m expecting great things from the triumvirate of Pam Bondi as head of the Department of Justice, and Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the FBI.

Not rocket surgery, no matter how much or for how long the reality is denied.

The legal maxim actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea means “an act does not make a person guilty unless there is a guilty intent“. It’s a fundamental principle of criminal law.

Of course the ‘Lack of Morality‘ GOP party prefers to twist Law ‘n Facts to suit their “species of violence.”

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea is a Latin phrase that emphasizes that a guilty state of mind, or mens rea, must accompany an action to establish guilt. In other words, the act itself isn’t enough to establish guilt.

However, the ‘Lack of Morality‘ GOP party would rather ignore even the Declaration of Independence when it suits their “species of violence.”:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Brian E

Addictive drugs harm everyone the person comes into contact with. That goes for other vices as well.

Right, ignore one’s unalienable Rights to ‘the pursuit of Happiness‘ – ignore that same one’s lack of ‘criminal intent‘ and then twist the Law to suit your evil beliefs. Focus on your beliefs and the imaginary “harm” that maybe causes “harm” to “everyone the person comes into contact with.” Then use the power of *BIG* Government to enforce your evil beliefs. That sounds worse than Lawfare.

Real *HARM* comes in making such Vices illegal—creating unjust Laws that turn innocent people into criminals, and not allowing them their pursuit of Happiness. Creating underground economies that go untaxed, etc. Create unjust Vice Laws that have historically been proven unenforceable – adding to massive costs for the American Taxpayer, etc.

But it’s far from that. Addictive drugs harm everyone the person comes into contact with. That goes for other vices as well.

We treat the individual user trapped in their addiction differently than the manufacturer/distributor/seller that profits on other peoples weakness.

Many of the homeless in our town are drug addicts. For some reason it’s considered more moral/humane to install a Narcan dispenser in the public library than it is to help the person/involuntary incarceration to break the addiction.

Yes the recidivism is high because it’s very hard to diagnose the internal pain/emotional trauma that makes living in a stupor preferable to living life.