# What needs to change to prevent a repeat of the past four years?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 21, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-needs-to-change-to-prevent-a-repeat-of-the-past-four-years/931092 "2021-01-21T13:42:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-needs-to-change-to-prevent-a-repeat-of-the-past-four-years/931092/114 "2021-01-23T11:13:07Z")

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> [@Why The Great Recovery?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-the-great-recovery/573153/24):
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> There is of course the famous argument by Levitt/Donahue that legalization of abortion in the early 70’s contributed to falling crime rates in the 1990’s. There has been a [debate](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortion_on_Crime) about the paper but their argument and evidence still looks pretty convincing.

I was pretty sure I remembered from some years back similar arguments to the ones you are making here and ran across that post as well as the racism/sexism posts in the process.

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