Even though you get into some obvious extremes, your feelings are most likely consistent with the feeling of a large number of Americans.Our failed society is all due to liberalism. They turned our prisons into playgrounds, took God out of our schools and society, promoted and praised single-parent families and replaced the father with a welfare check and food stamps. Then when these Godless people murder somebody, they come out of prison and have the Democrat party re-instituting their voting rights.
Our prisons are overflowing. Gee, I wonder why? Three square meals a day, a field outside to play football and baseball, a little quiet room in case you want your wife or girlfriend to stop over to start a family, a pool room, the ability to purchase snacks if your friends or family donate money to your account, and when you need a few days of vacation, level a lawsuit against the state because you were served grape jello instead of cherry. They will drive you out of there for a few days in court for a change of scenery.
Want to stop the overflow of prisons, then turn our prisons into the prison from the classic movie Cool Hand Luke. Nobody would want to go there.
I would be interested in hearing you expand on your proclaiming that liberalism is to blame.
Defining liberalism as it pertains to this discussion?
Norway's system could be termed as socialism or perhaps 'socially responsible' government reform but it could maybe be excluded from fitting the term, 'liberalism'.
More to your point Ray, what reform is needed to fix America's failure? More incarceration and/or more death penalties?
Giving police freedom to shoot down black men on sight?
My interest is in observing at this point, and not to criticize any possible solution.