Let’s put the blame for our border problems squarely where it belongs: on the USA’s atrocious, expensive, inhumane, unjust, and counter-productive War on Drug-Using Americans, which regularly drives billions of dollars into Latin America, where it can be fought over by drug lords, criminal cartels, and corrupt governments, making life there miserable for average citizens.
Meanwhile, here in America, people’s lives are ruined by needing to deal with our own criminal class, suffering from drugs of dubious composition and purity (because the FDA has no control over them), and feeding the prison-industrial complex. The beauty of this from the right-wing perspective, of course, is that most convicted felons can’t vote to reform the system.
Think of all the jobs we could create — and the lives we could save — if we legalized, industrialized, standardized, regulated, and taxed recreational drugs and treated any abuse of them as a medical problem, not a legal one. Why, the very guy who’s today a back-alley dope dealer would, in 5 years, be a respectable businessman, joining the Jaycees and just as welcome there as the small brewers and tavern owners have been ever since we repealed our last bit of prohibitionist idiocy back in 1933.
But no, we can’t even get rid of the monumental stupidity that is daylight-saving time, let alone agree on an enlightened, rational approach to something that everybody has a profound emotional opinion about.
Let’s put the blame for our border problems squarely where it belongs: on the USA’s atrocious, expensive, inhumane, unjust, and counter-productive War on Drug-Using Americans, which regularly drives billions of dollars into Latin America, where it can be fought over by drug lords, criminal cartels, and corrupt governments, making life there miserable for average citizens.
Meanwhile, here in America, people’s lives are ruined by needing to deal with our own criminal class, suffering from drugs of dubious composition and purity (because the FDA has no control over them), and feeding the prison-industrial complex. The beauty of this from the right-wing perspective, of course, is that most convicted felons can’t vote to reform the system.
Think of all the jobs we could create — and the lives we could save — if we legalized, industrialized, standardized, regulated, and taxed recreational drugs and treated any abuse of them as a medical problem, not a legal one. Why, the very guy who’s today a back-alley dope dealer would, in 5 years, be a respectable businessman, joining the Jaycees and just as welcome there as the small brewers and tavern owners have been ever since we repealed our last bit of prohibitionist idiocy back in 1933.
But no, we can’t even get rid of the monumental stupidity that is daylight-saving time, let alone agree on an enlightened, rational approach to something that everybody has a profound emotional opinion about.