Update on the Heir's opposition to legal pot.  The politicians in Bachelor Blue State have decided to designate the issue on referendum on next year's ballot, or are trying to do so.  If it gets on there, the Heir's looking *very forward* to voting against the issue on the ballot.  The Heir heard on audio how this is kind of punt to the voters, and in one respect the Heir agrees.  The politicians have figured out that legal pot is one of those Last Taboo type issues, and they see that as a political rabbit hole, so they look a couple steps ahead in trying to debate the issue.  They're afraid that one of them might end up implying that we should legalize sex work if we're going to legalize pot, because why have one and not the other?  Even in 2019 none of them wants to go on record as even *implying* legalizing sex work, so they punted that whole debate to the voters to get it out of the state house.  Legal pot being a Last Taboo is another way of saying that it's not really about social justice, as important as that is.  The Heir's pretty sure that legalizing pot will end up doing next to nothing with social justice.  People will still go to jail for excessive amounts of time, and there will still be inequality in the system.  And while that's going on, teenagers will blow pot smoke in the faces of adults, because they believe the phrase Legal Pot allows them to do so.  There will also be far less support for recovery resources, and peer pressure among teens to do pot will greatly increase.  Again, the Heir makes clear that this is *the* wrong track to go on.

"If Bachelor Blue State legalizes pot, we will *live* to regret it."

Here's something the Heir's following up on with our last shares base share.  Last time the Heir decried the progressive exploitation of the impeachment, but his followup to that is that the progressive movement wants to push an if-not-one-then-the-other logical fallacy in and for the post-Trump era.  They'll try to tell people Trump Bad Us Good, and that Trump is Bad only because he wishes to conserve, *not* because the guy's a criminal.  The Heir hasn't forgotten that it was the actions of the progressive movement vis a vis Ed Snowden and the personal corruption those helped cause that allowed to Trump to rise to power in the first place.  The Heir's sure that if Bob Mueller had enough time, he would have found this out.  So convenient for the progressive movement that he didn't.

The Heir sees a broad-brush anti-cop mood sweeping the country ever since that trial in Dallas.  In one week alone two cops were attacked for nothing more than doing their duty.  One cop got shot by an assailant, and that cop's life just happened to be saved by his bulletproof vest.  Another cop was attacked and possibly killed when an onlooker attacked that cop with a metal chair in a restaurant when the cop was going to make a separate arrest.  About a week ago, cops were again being drenched with a water hose while on the job.  The Heir's hoping that none of those cops find themselves on this Credibility Blacklist that's being spread now.

The Heir's pretty sure that if it weren't for Big Tech, there wouldn't be a "debate" or a "controversy" about whether or not the Notre Dame steeple should be rebuilt in the classic gothic fashion the cathedral was originally built in.  When the steeple burnt down earlier this year, no one ever thought that there was anything wrong with the style by which the steeple should be rebuilt.  And then some Big Tech surrogates on "expert" media cast aspersions on the classiness concept and now everyone feels guilty if the steeple weren't replaced by a Libiskind-style shard.  If we do get this big shard in the middle of an otherwise gothic cathedral, the Heir intends to lend support to those who will rage-quit Notre Dame on the shard alone and continue to worship at the smaller churches they're at now.

"Dang, how many times do I have to tell people: Principle is not just a person who runs a school."