Ok but, as an analogy, that doesn't work here because we're not smoking and thus risking our health that way; a rather irreversible thing. What we're doing now, I'm trying to get you to define in order to discuss it and see from there what we agree on or disagree and thence solutions.
If we're talking about social liberalization, then, I don't want to go back. We have more equality of opportunity than ever before.
If we're talking debt, that can be written off. it should be, frankly.
If we're talking the tar babies we've grabbed ahold of over seas, I say we are strong enough to disengage and that THAT would serve the national interest.
If we're talking immigration, that is a deep problem because the parties have supported uncontrolled immigration so thoroughly and for so long, it has become transformative which, to me, is all the reason we need to appeal to new folks on Constitutional and Declaration of Independence grounds, ideologically.
If we're talking morally, I think that is a mixed bag. Racism, despite the Presidents best efforts is, I think, on the decline. I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, the President is black and most people see his goons as hustlers, not MLK types. Not withstanding a VERY few cop related incidents and the fact that we refuse to talk about the 6,000 young black men a year murdered by other young black men, society is moving in a somewhat positive, melting pot direction. However, assimilation is a huge issue as is restating our beliefs in equality of opportunity, not outcome. That said, the socializing of the economy means anyone can be simply chosen to be in charge of it.
So, we're not talking about smoking. What are we talking about?