Who are Dumber—politicians or the Average American Voter?
In a decade, the number of people imprisoned every year in The Netherlands fell from 50,650 in 2005 to 37,790 in 2015. And the rate of incarceration stands at 57 prisoners per 100,000 residents, compared with 458 in the United States.
There is something very dense about the people in the United States when it comes to crime and drugs. We pride ourselves in being tough on criminals and tough on drug users, traffickers. Yet we have more of our people in jail, higher crime rates, and greater problems with drug addictions than most, if not all, other modern industrialized countries. Wow. How come?
For a start Americans have let politicians and the police determine our policies and attitudes here rather than let medical professionals deal with drug addicts, scientists dictate information about drug abuse, and sociologists deal with criminal behavior. Most Americans have essentially been brain washed by our Government, for political motives, regarding crime and drug addictions. Few things help a politician get elected better that a promise to throw more people in jail, not mentioning that it costs about $30,000/per year/per innate. Many citizens no less dense that our politicians, albeit at least an honest dumbness, don’t realize that more prisoners means more tax money is needed. But of course the same politicians promise a tax cut also. Silly games like this ends up with our country much deeper in debt.
Below is a comparison with just one European country in the areas of crime and drugs. . People are not, for the most part, with few genetic exceptions, born to be criminals or drug addicts. Our attitudes regarding universal health care, good schools for everyone, employment opportunities for everyone, vacation time for all workers, livable wages for all workers, and respect for diversity have created toxic ghetto environments for many of our citizens and these toxic dangerous environments are growing at an exponential rate. Why can’t we change and take responsibility for all our communities and citizens regarding basic human needs? I guess the idea of meeting the basic needs of all our citizens sounds like socialism and that word makes most Americans see red. And thus we are now paying a terrible cost.
The formative years today, for far too many Americans, is so stressful for them that they suffer from chronic high levels of stress hormones in their blood—this damages all organ systems in their body, especially the Central Nervous System, and by the time they are adults they are damaged entities, sometimes permanently. The stats below are just disgusting and yet there are no indications we are about to change our attitudes about these areas. How bad does it have to get before we face the reality that we are doing many things wrong here?
Why is it so difficult to understand that people use recreational drugs when their lives are too chronically stressful and these drugs, depending on the drug, relieves them in varied ways from the pain of their reality. Our attitude continues to be one of “we don’t care about your pain from your reality. Stop taking the drug or we will jail you. And we will stiffen the jail terms for those who supply you the drug. “Just say no” is the most ridiculous answer to drug addiction imaginable. People can handle chronic pain, physical, mental or emotional, for just so long and then will do most anything to relieve the pain—often using drugs to do it. We essentially are telling them “We don’t care about your life of pain and frustration, you just put up with it without drugs or you are going to jail.” 60 years of our useless War on Drugs and the stupidity still goes on. We are stupid about drugs, we are stupid about taxes, we are stupid about invading countries right and left—driven essentially by our biggest industries——the Military/Industrial Complex, our biggest industry outside of the black market on drugs. Isn’t that a pip—our two biggest industries are weapons and the illegal drug market.
The ultimate irony here is that the last person who would ever do anything to give his angry trapped base a more level playing field is Donald Trump, but he gets their vote because Trump is angry at the same politicians that they are angry at, and even holds more draconian views on ghettos, drug use, and basic needs for all citizens than his predecessors. Not hard to picture what will happen when this ‘angry’ base turns against an ‘angry’ ignorant emotionally disturbed President. The sparks will likely fly, co-ordinated roving riots with the requisite economic chaos—-the inevitable formula for domestic implosion. This is a very dangerous game being played out here. I like good theatre, but not of the horror show venue.
Country vs country: Netherlands and United Statescompared: Crime stats
|
STAT
|
Netherlands
|
United States
|
HISTORY
|
|
194,677
Ranked 11th.
|
14.2 million
Ranked 1st. 73 times more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
12.06
Ranked 9th.
|
49.38
Ranked 2nd. 4 times more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
12
Ranked 34th. Twice as much as United States
|
6
Ranked 58th.
|
|
|
|
1%
Ranked 16th.
|
1.2%
Ranked 9th. 20% more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
351.8
Ranked 14th.
|
786.7
Ranked 1st. 2 times more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
138.3
Ranked 21st.
|
390.2
Ranked 6th. 3 times more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
52%
Ranked 17th.
|
89%
Ranked 1st. 71% more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
61.76
Ranked 54th.
|
65.22
Ranked 44th. 6% more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
0.4%
Ranked 8th. Twice as much as United States
|
0.2%
Ranked 12th.
|
|
|
|
427.5
Ranked 21st.
|
714.4
Ranked 9th. 67% more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
35,384
Ranked 16th.
|
1.25 million
Ranked 1st. 35 times more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
2.19
Ranked 18th.
|
4.33
Ranked 11th. 98% more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
36.59
Ranked 58th.
|
55.84
Ranked 30th. 53% more than Netherlands
|
|
|
|
12,683 per 100,000 people
Ranked 17th. 23 times more than United States
|
560.1 per 100,000 people
Ranked 41st.
|
|
|
|
Drugs > Annual cannabis use
|
5.4%
Ranked 6th.
|
13.7%
Ranked 1st. 3 times more than Netherlands
|
|
