"The sexual revolution led to an epidemic of lesbianism and infanticide. Welfare reform led just as inevitably to mass starvation in the inner cities. The New Deal continued to snowball until 90 percent of the U.S. workforce was digging trenches and putting on Eugene O’Neill plays under the Works Progress Administration. "

Can't tell what the context is, but that sounds like some heavy irony. (though oor keith might agree with part of the first sentence


A semi-related aside, i think the correlation between the reduction of crime rates and the un-leading of petrol should be talked about more. eg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27067615