Why do people think Outlawing bad things will always Fix the problem?
It gives me no joy to say that most Republicans in this country still do not have complex critical thinking skills, because most of them simply assume that when you make a bad thing illegal, it will always just magically solve the problem. And this should come as no surprise to anyone who follows history, because conservatives have had the bad habit of stamping the ILLEGAL sign on every "immoral" thing they see for many years.
Take Prohibition, for example. Angry moms, most of whom were Christian and conservative, didn't want the terrible influences of alcohol affecting their husbands and sons, so they decided in order to fix the problem, they had to make it illegal. Their plan ended up backfiring, and the entire country went into an uproar, forming cartels and gangs to smuggle alcohol into the country, causing even more death and terror than was present during the days when it was legal.
Now, if you look at what we have today, it's almost the same exact thing. There are all of these religious, fundamentalist Republicans running around praising the drug war, screaming about how drugs, prostitution, and abortion should never be legalized, etc. because they believe them to be immoral, while bashing liberals for wanting to make them legal.
The thing these Republicans don't realize is that they and the Democrats are on the same side. Conservatives can't get it through their thick skulls that most Liberals are personally against that stuff too! Whichever way you look at it, Liberals are just normal people; they don't take drugs, they don't pay for hookers, and they don't make a habit of killing their babies. Even with abortion, most liberals are indeed pro-choice and respect the rights of the mother, but that doesn't mean they support the act of getting an abortion, that's absurd and inconceivable.
The only difference between the two parties' opinions is that the Liberal approach to the solution is backed by years of history and research, which shows that legalizing problems, while still instituting some government regulation, fixes problems a lot more effectively than just sending people to jail if they partake in them. Legalizing drugs in America, while taxing them and providing secure facilities for private drug use, would not only introduce a whole new line of revenue for the government, but would also bring an almost immediate end to the drug wars in Mexico, destroy American gangs and stop gang wars, and also provide safer facilities for people to use drugs, thus resulting in a dramatic decrease in death and violence in the entire country. It's just the lesser of two evils, if there was a fix-all approach, we would have already done it.
Legalizing prostitution and abortion would have similar effects. Do you want hookers illegally participating in the underground economy, having unprotected sex with their partners, risking death and disease while being paid untaxed money, or do you want legal prostitutes, who are required to take monthly STD checks, report their incomes to the IRS, and be functioning members of society? And do you want women dumping their babies in trashcans and risking their lives using hangers to stab the fetus to death in their bedrooms, or do you want women paying taxed money to go to secured abortion clinics, where they can be made aware of the serious emotional consequences of an abortion, and take part in a safe procedure?
You see, it's not about whether you think these things are morally right or wrong. I'm sure there were plenty of mothers during the prohibition era who hated alcohol, but were smart enough to realize that outlawing it would only make the problem worse. You just have to realize one thing: people will drink beer, do drugs, have sex for money, and get abortions no matter what; you can only stop a fraction of them by making it illegal. Society would be doing a lot better right now if people realized this simple truth. So, next time you hear one of your Republican friends talk about making drugs, prostitution, or abortion illegal, give them a nice big gulp of "Wake Up" Juice and lay 'em down with a little logic for a change.
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