Which I do. But even that may not be enough. Abe Lincoln took comfort in the fact that politicians couldn t fool all the people all the time. Somewhere between Nixon and Bush our leaders figured out that you can fool some of the people some of the time and that s good enough. Law enforcement has become a leading industry.
Prisoners are commodities.
They have become an essential element in the middle of the food web. Again, I digress. So the war on drugs is pursued mindlessly to its extremes, wasting billions of dollars, and millions of lives, while schools, libraries, and the poor go without. For what we spend on the war on drugs we could put every drug offender through college. It may be that the public will eventually see the folly of the war on drugs.