I predict that the increasing demonization of China will have their hounds braying off on a fresh track not too long from now and pro-privacy initiatives will gain momentum. And hateful is all you can call it. Politicians camouflage the failure of their costly punishment-only, prison policy by snorting tough rhetoric. According to many politicians, addiction is a moral failing that anyone can easily change. As a member of the recovery community, I know it isn't so.
Recovery is complicated, baffling, and difficult.
No amount of punishment ever cleaned up a single addict or sobered up a single drunk. It is a great relief to hear, at last, these voices of sense and reason. We can still approach the issue of drug use with tolerance and understanding, or with hatred and repression. Our leaders and many among us have chosen the latter, less sensible options. We have to wonder how that awful expression became part of policy in a democracy.