Progressive Policies are Worsening Addiction and Increasing Drug Deaths

Since liberalizing drug laws 20 years ago, deaths from illicit drugs rose from 17,000 to 93,000.

“Victimology takes the trust that it is wrong for people to be victimized and distorts it by going a step further. Victimology asserts that victims are inherently good because they have been victimized. it robs individuals of their moral agency and creates double standards that frustrate any attempt to criticize their behavior. Even if they are behaving in self-destructive, antisocial ways…Such reasoning is obviously faulty. it purifies victims of all badness. But by appealing to emotion, victimology overrides reason and logic.”

“Progressives don’t trade away Fairness for victims, only for those they see as privileged. Progressive still value Fairness, but more for victims, and their progressive allies, than for everyone equally, and particularly not for people progressives view as the oppressors and victimizers…Progressives also value Authority and Loyalty for victims above everyone else.

What kind of a civilization leaves its most vulnerable people to use deadly substances and die on the streets? What kind of city regulates ice cream stores more strictly than drug dealers who kill 713 of its citizens in a single year? nd what kind of people moralize about their superior treatment of the poor, people of color, and addicts while enabling and subsidizing the conditions of their death?

Shellenberger covers all of this in his book - San Fransicko : Why Progressives Ruin Cities - In a lot more detail