https://americanreformer.org/2024/12/an-american-idol-online-sports-betting/
Rampant Sports Gambling Is a Stain on Our Country
America’s love of sports gambling will not be going away any time soon. Its devastating consequences have been well-cataloged—from apps that use morally dubious tactics to ensnare gambling addicts to the industry draining vast sums of money from the lower classes and the poor. Those who design sports betting apps have created algorithms of addiction that exploit existing sinful tendencies and also create new ones.
All of this combines to corrode the very citizen character that’s a prerequisite for republican government as well as drive a wedge between man and God. What nations formed in the cradle of Western civilization once relegated to seedy private establishments is now promoted during nearly every commercial break in every NFL game.
Like the transgender craze, the full effects of legalizing 24/7 online sports gambling in most states will likely only be widely acknowledged later on—and I just hope that what the Supreme Court unleashed in 2018 will not be irreversible.
But don’t tell that to The Economist, the neoliberal British journal founded by the Scottish banker James Wilson in 1843. In a recent piece titled “America’s gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared,” the journal revels in the explosion of gambling in the U.S. The editors see this not as an omen of a culture in decline but as a testament to unrestrained liberty. America is to be applauded, we are told, for rejecting its “puritanical past” in favor of expanding “people’s freedom to lead their lives as they choose.” Unmoored freedom—or what the American founders would call license—in this telling is a great good—perhaps even the summum bonum of human life. But in reality, it’s yet another sign that Western civilization is locked into a suicidal spiral of its own making.
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