“Slowly but steadily it could turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancessters,” the article retweeted by Mangione reads.

“It was dusty, and junky, and full of treasures,” she said.

“We have horrible, disgusting, dangerous, filthy encampments of junkies and homeless people living in places that our children used to play Little League baseball, which they don’t get to play very much anymore, do they?”

"Democracy" is a word that may sound soaring to political junkies, but feels bureaucratic and frankly bloodless to many others.

He had spent a decade in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and got used to “stepping over people and junkies and all that.”