Michael Moore: Continued

After finishing watching  Michael Moore's satiric documentary, Where to Invade Next, it was clear to me that there are so many things the United States could improve on with the power of our government. Wether it be paid vacations, sex education classes, no standardized tests, free college, shorter work weeks, no death penalty, equal gender rights, or female leadership, Michael Moore's points that he makes in his film are only a handful of the tons of ways that America could improve.

Seeing how other countries followed through with their laws opened my eyes to worlds I never knew about or even imagined. What gets me the most, is that each of these laws that Moore introduced us to originated from ideas that were created in the United States. For example, in Portugal there are no laws against using drugs. It blows my mind that the idea to legalize the recreational use of all drugs came form America; I cannot even begin to imagine how that would effect Americans if it were to be in place now.

However, as we look back on the history of the United States and the reasoning as to why we even administered the laws on recreational drugs, we must keep in mind the effects these laws had on the lives of black Americans. Since the laws were originally created because the government felt that they needed to "catch" black Americans for doing something bad so that they could prosecute them. As a result of this law, black people have faced horrible punishments for their irrational acts and as Moore states in the movie, "one in every three black men is not allowed to vote in the United States". Today, these back lashes have started movements like Black Lives Matter. With this in mind, I think that this movement is a start to a way that the United States would be able to go back to legalizing the use of recreational drugs.