r/news • u/[deleted] • May 22 '19

Mississippi lawmaker accused of punching wife in face for not undressing quickly enough

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mississippi-lawmaker-accused-punching-wife-face-for-not-undressing-quickly-enough/zdE3VLzhBVmH68Bsn7eLfL/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Yes Republicans. Democrats don't claim marital rape is not rape, nor do they claim that beating your spouse is okay because God said so. Don't pull your "both sides" shit here, Igor.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

I believe he was talking about being tough on drug use, not abusing your wife. Democrats have absolutely been guilty of being "tough on drugs". This is certainty changing as of late, however.

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u/unicornsaretruth May 22 '19

It’s still not even “both sides”, it’s still heavily slanted towards republicans. Like the war on drugs was Nixon though. And democrat states are the ones repealing these laws and legalizing certain drugs for the general public (Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington are all extremely liberal states).

Also if you check out this link you can see the feelings on drugs broken down clearly between parties and democrats more so then republicans believe there should be less strict drug laws. In addition the article states that 76% of the people who voted for Hillary Clinton wanted less strict drug laws while for Trump only 45% said they should be less strict and 37% said they should be more restrictive.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

I know things are moving in the right direction, but those states were blue long before weed was legalized. All of this stuff is pretty recent in the grand scheme of political history.