What is wrong in American Society?

Question

After so many "tough on drugs, tough on crime" policies, America is more crime ridden than ever. What do you think is wrong? What do you think we must do to make things better?

Answer 1

I have a feeling that my answer won't be too popular, but here it goes and it is based on fact and observation over the 48 years of life.
Our society as a whole has been in a downward spiral ever since Communism/Socialism got a foothold in the U.S. Look at what it has done to the school systems just for starters. No matter how much money is thrown at it, it only gets worse, not better. No matter how much we spend on social welfare, poverty and crime get worse. People like the Pulosi's, Kerry's, Clinton's Bush, Kennedy's and so are ruining this country. The ACLU is ruining this country. Federal judges with a far left agenda who Put aside the Constitution are ruining this country. Communism/Socialism is a poison to the youth and to society as a whole. It has failed in every country that has tried it. Germany, Russia, France, England and so on. If it wasn't for this country and it's "evil capitalism" these countries would have had a disastrous collapse a long time ago. We have a society that is dumbing down instead of getting smarter. The facts speak for themselves.

Answer 2

1. i have posted a question that asks should we put the gang members now in prison into the armed forces? i hope you look for it and add your own input because:

2. we cannot really do much about the problem of drugs. it is all about money. the drug cartels will sell to anyone that will pay them. they want money. they don't live here, they live in mansions in poor nations. so, if our people are willing to fly little airplanes down there to bring in drugs, they will certainly find a way, since they too think only about money.

3. if more of our own citizens were hard at work, making things that our people will buy and use, then they wouldn't have all that much time on their hands to deal dope. however, we'd have to get out OWN people making MORE MONEY so that they COULD buy american! what a conundrum!

4. if the criminal mind thinks of a criminal thing to do, the criminal will do it. whether such a person gets caught is a different story. they believe, the more crimes they get away with, that crime is easy [money].

5. supply and demand: idiots that do not read books and hang out with other idiots that don't read book, nor even newspapers, demand that their minds be altered into enhanced states so that they don't have to think. since the supply is lower than what they want to become numb, they pay the MONEY to get the drugs.

6. plea bargaining: it is terrible that criminals are not justly punished for their crimes. that's because the entire legal system in our country supports plea bargaining. our prisons are overcrowded (when they really do not have to be if we put some of them into war and others on a boat floating somewhere out in the pacific ocean), therefore, it's simpler to get a criminal convicted of a lesser crime so that they can punish him, at least for a LITTLE WHILE.

7. marijuana, as far as i have seen, is less dangerous than is alcohol. it should be made legal. but i do not think the other drugs should. they damage the idiotic brain even more than it is already.

Answer 3

NOTHING WENT WRONG. Everything is going as expected. There was no War on Drugs. That was a P.R. Event for the Masses in America to buy. It never really happened.

The American Government was driving up the price of drugs to make more money to fund certain parts of the Government. If you remember Regean and the Contra Scandal, that is EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS ABOUT! And I know because I live not to far from the airport Govenor Clinton (then) allowed Oliver North to fly the drugs INTO, in Mena, Arkansas. Its all on the Internet. America was making money on drugs. Period.

Then local law enforcement got in on the act with seizures of peoples properties. Then it went from bad to worse.

What do we need to do? Well, there we're no anti-drug laws in the 20th Century yet you don't hear of rampant drug problems, just of Prohibition in the last days of it. So, if there was no, or not a bad drug problem, then why all the drug laws? FOR THE MONEY THEY BRING IN! SILLY!

Answer 4

I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I think that we need to focus on rehabilitation instead of retribution. It's obvious that getting tougher and tougher on crime is not working as a deterrent. I think the criminal justice system itself is part of the problem.

Let's not incarcerate non-violent offenders with violent ones. All that putting them together does is teach everyone how to do worse crimes more effectively.

Let's put a human aspect back into our courts. Now, judges have to follow sentencing guidelines. Let's put the job of judging back into the judges' hands.

I think that's a start. I do acknowledge that there could be other aspects of our society that are contributing to the problem--anything from overpopulation to poverty to fast-paced lifestyle induced stress.

Answer 5

The war on drugs is futile at best. It's a waste of resources, and does nothing but hurt America's citizens. Since the war on drugs has started, the drug business has only grown. Our jails are full of people convicted of drug-related crimes, when we should be spending our tax money on the crimes that matter.

I think a huge burden on American society is religion. Conservative evangelical christians are tearing this nation apart with their BS. They want to impose their beliefs on everyone else, and force people into following their rules. If you want to lie to your children and say the Earth was created in six days, I still don't believe that's right, but you better not try and force that crap on mine. If you don't want to get an abortion, then don't. But don't take away other people's right to make that decision for themselves.

Answer 6

It is about the families. for the most part, men are after sex, women are after money, and in the process we forgot about our moral responsibilities towards our families and children. The law is America doesn't encourage people to be morally responsible, thus everyone tries to do, and get away with, what the law wouldn't be a problem for them, totally negelecting the core values of a good member of a good society.

Answer 7

Satan is running things
Pray the Lords Prayer Thy Kingdom Come etc!

Answer 8

The disintegration of the nuclear family......the other day, I heard the term 'fatherless epidemic.' I think that has alot to do with it - kids not having stable homes.

Answer 9

well a well known american official once said , "if you abort every african american baby"......... ,thumbs up if you heard that as well, give me a second ill locate a link
http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/war_room/2005/09/29/bennett/print.html?source=RSS

Answer 10

rid the country of the ones who commit all the crimes and we know who most of them are , right.....................