King County had more than 1,000 drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2023.
These two facts are almost certainly related, but which is the cause and which the effect? Or could it be that both the tendency to vote for Democrats and the addiction to dangerous drugs are caused by some unknown factor? Without a careful analysis of the available data to identify that unknown background factor, is it wrong to hazard a guess that the overdosing dopeheads and Democratic voters in King County are just plain stupid?
In the case of King County's skyrocketing drug overdoses - which increased nearly 50 percent in just the past year - local officials have declared the problem "a public health crisis." However, fentanyl is illegal, which means that the overdoses are also indicative of a crime problem, and progressives are against putting criminals in prison.
If recent experience has shown us anything, it's that you can't reduce the drug problem by legalizing hitherto outlawed substances or refusing to enforce existing drug laws.
Just take a look at the streets of Seattle, where addicts crowd the sidewalks in open-air drug markets.
The same criminal who sells you weed will also be happy to supply you with fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, or MDMA. The cause-and-effect questions about the correlations between voting for Democrats and disastrous outcomes like the drug problem in Seattle are matters of national consequence.
No matter how much Biden tries to portray himself as a blue-collar "Regular guy" favoring commonsense policies, his election was the result of the Democratic Party's urban dominance, and the agenda of the Biden administration owes much less to common sense than to the kind of ideologues who think it is good policy to legalize drugs, ban plastic straws, and turn loose violent felons in the name of "Social justice."
https://spectator.org/americas-social-justice-nightmares-have-only-intensified/
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