Drug Overdoses reach new high:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/02/upshot/fentanyl-drug-overdose-deaths.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

According to this revised study by the New York Times, my previous estimates were all accurate -- except that they were too low.

53,180 people died of opioid-related drug overdoses last year.  71,440 died of drug overdoses of any type.  My 50k and 60k estimates undersold the crisis we're actually in.  These numbers are expected to continue rising as more information trickles in about just how bad last year was.  Of course, 2017 is slated to set a new record even higher than this one.

Now, I don't personally care about scum who kill themselves through their own sins.  But this is a great indicator of the economic and spiritual health of the people as a whole -- of how our country is doing and whether its policies are enlightened or not.  Since I vehemently disagree with virtually every decision of our culture and government (ie, the road less traveled), these statistics are great proof that yes, we are on the wrong track and yes, we do need revolutionary change in all fields of life.

71,440 wouldn't have had to die last year if they had been correctly guided with a good culture and a good law code that cracked down on this sort of sinful existence.  If they hadn't been led into temptation, if drug dealers were all hunted down and killed and the borders actually policed so drugs couldn't get in -- if taking drugs was forbidden and the punishment was exile for anyone caught doing it and the whole community bought in to reporting and enforcing these infractions -- 71,440 people never would have had the chance to make the mistakes they did.

If they had a citizen's dividend and the cost of living were appropriately low, if everyone were in a mandatory marriage with kids and thus had a fulfilling life that didn't need drugs, they never would have sought out drugs in the first place.

My policies could have given nearly 100,000 people life that are instead dead.  Every year my policies could be saving 100,000 lives.  But because we're libertarians who only care about freedom, everyone is dropping like flies instead.

There are consequences to ignoring my advice.  There are consequences to not making me Emperor.  People will continue to die every year until my road becomes more traveled.