According to a recent
Gallup poll,
more Americans are now smoking marijuana than cigarettes. That’s
progress, right? In a poll conducted July 5th to 26th, only 11% of Americans
surveyed said they smoked cigarettes. That’s as compared to 45% in the
mid-1950s. Yet 16% of Americans admitted to smoking pot, 48% saying they have
tried it at some point in their lives. Contrast that to 1969, when only 4% of
Americans said they smoked “weed.”
The
tobacco/cigarette
industry has been constantly harassed, taxed, fined, and demonized by
government entities and liberals everywhere…whereas the production and sale of marijuana
has effectively been subsidized—and almost glorified. Which may be an
indication that they, too, are stoned.
A
marijuana cigarette, or “joint,” contains more carcinogens than does a tobacco
cigarette. Moreover, the amount of the intoxicating substance in a joint, THC,
has been steadily rising over the years. (Unlike virtually all other
consumables, apparently there is no market for “light marijuana.” Quite the
opposite, apparently.) The long-term effects of this aren’t yet fully known,
but include damage to a person’s lungs, heart and brain…three fairly important organs.
This
tracks with numerous other trends-- most reversals of conventional wisdom, some
flying in the face traditional morality.
To
wit: saying “all lives matter” is now considered not only somehow controversial,
but racist and offensive. Proclaiming that one wishes to “Make America Great
Again” is not only frowned upon but might trigger an FBI raid on one’s abode.
All sentient and sane people wonder how this can possibly be.
“Thought
leaders” and influencers flat out aver that all whites are racist, because
of their skin color, utterly ignoring the stupendously racist nature of
their own remarks and beliefs, not to mention the mind-boggling hypocrisy.
Nearly
all erstwhile taboos and modes of depravity are being legitimized-- and indeed
lionized-- even as Christianity is being mocked, altered, and demonized.
Violent
criminals are being repeatedly set free without bail, yet Trump supporters deemed
guilty of “trespassing” are being held in prisons-- if not solitary confinement--
for lengthy and often indefinite periods of time.
The
Biden administration considers other nations’ borders inviolate, while effectively
refusing to even acknowledge our own. Our elites disparage a wall on our
southern border, but almost without exception make certain their own properties
are protected by fences and/or walls. And often armed security, though most
purport to be for gun control. Our current leaders neglect our own aging nuclear
deterrent while doing everything they can to make certain Iran has “the bomb”
ASAP.
Perhaps
most detrimental of all, the divine complementarity of the two sexes, male and
female, is being summarily dismissed as arbitrary, unreal, a mere figment of the
imaginations of white male scientists from yesteryear. Something simply “assigned”
to one at birth (signifying nothing of note) by an overworked—and probably
toxically masculine-- medical professional.
We
have traded independence for groupthink, education for indoctrination, pants
hitched up firmly around our waists for masks hitched firmly over our faces, reason
for unmoored emotion, cognitive intelligence for artificial intelligence, Main
Street for Wall Street, limited government and small business for unlimited
government and Big Tech, Bible study for drag queen story hour, the Founders
vision for a false socialist utopia, gratitude for an entitlement mentality…and
reality for “virtual reality.”
In
doing so, we have traded traditional American optimism for ennui and despair.
One
might well think it’s time to make America great again (if it’s not already too
late to do so).
Just
don’t say so publicly, or Biden’s FBI might raid your home. And your spouse’s clothes
closet.
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