America glorifies alcohol, gluttony, gambling, and drugs to its destruction

The ones that kept liquor stores and dispensaries open while shuttering gyms.

Any state-run lottery

Any locale putting up billboards "destigmatizing" fentanyl use (NYC)

Any city paying drug addicts a basic income to do drugs (SF) and legalize shoplifting

Any state tax incentive to open a casino (many red/rust belt tates)

I could go on and on and on

Another good point

Funny- No name was mentioned.

You’re the one that projected that onto a Republican.

So telling indeed.

Obviously you're referring to Trump, which is fine; I don't like him either.

People are going to ignore this one. Republicans salivate so wildly over his repugnant ideology they'll do all the mental gymnastics necessary to avoid the reality.

You’re referring to pretty much every 1st world country on the planet, not just America.

This is a comically falsifiable take:

Notable excerpts:

So even in Elizabethian and Victorian England: drinking was popular, people were obscessed with sex, the state sponsored gambling ventures, and yes, moralizing fun-haters complained vociferously about other people's choice of leisure.

Moral of the story: the more people change, the more we stay the same.

From a few decades ago...

…it has become abundantly clear in the second half of the twentieth century that Western Man has decided to abolish himself. Having wearied of the struggle to be himself, he has created his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, his own vulnerability out of his own strength; himself blowing the trumpet that brings the walls of his own city tumbling down, and, in a process of auto-genocide, convincing himself that he is too numerous, and labouring accordingly with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer in order to be an easier prey for his enemies; until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keels over a weary, battered old brontosaurus and becomes extinct.”

-Malcolm Muggeridge

Was I

You think the fact that you easily pinned those traits on Trump is an indictment on me and not him?

Anyone in their 50s will remember Evangelicals making this a big political theme in the 1980s. Then it kind of died out for many years, but its seems like they are bringing it out for a test drive again in recent years. It doesn't appear to be working as well as it did in the 80s. Not making any traction this time.

I suppose certain people have been making these types of political claims for centuries. Prohibition and the 18th Amendment being the high-water mark. Thank god that bogus bullsh!t eventually got blow up.

Were you following me around on Sunday night? This just a bit too spot on!

You just got the urge to advertise that Malcolm Muggeridge said some stup!d sh!t?

Weird.

OP that’s called capitalism. Some of us profit off of degeneracy.

Bad spelling & grammar too. Just sayin'

The things you really can’t legislate very well are values like, it’s good to be polite and considerate. It’s good if women don’t wear too much make-up. It’s good if people tell the truth. It’s good if parents do a good job parenting their children. (Those are just some examples.)

you can really only prosecute extreme examples of any of those, like being so inconsiderate as to punch someone in the face, or being so dishonest as to lie under oath in court, or being such a terrible parent that it crosses the line into neglect or abuse.

The other avenue to try to dictate people’s values, is propaganda, like when the George W. Bush administration tried to make it seem un-American and mean to not support military action (aka war) and tried to make it seem heroic and beautiful to work for the US Army.

It might’ve influenced some people in the U.S. to genuinely agree with those viewpoints, but on top of that, I think it also made people who disagreed, feel they needed to stay silent about it until the whole fervor passed.

Why do libs believe that not being a degenerate is inherently tied to religion even though religion wasn't mentioned? Are you revealing your lack of morality in the absence of an imaginary man in the sky telling you what to do?

I agree; I know plenty of scumbag alcoholic republicans that beat their wives. That’s why they go to church. So Jesus can make it all better.