carey_jim

Boom Time Era McCarthyism

I anticipated your response austrian63 but you need to admit that there is truth in humor too.

The cocaine drug war is about the hypocrisy of well-to-do people using drugs along with corruption in police forces. You know as well as I do that if America really wanted to stop illegal drugs we could, just as we have, for the most part, stopped polygamy and other things we truly refuse to tolerate. But most of us don't want to.

I think you are smart enough to read between the "head" lines to see that, for instance, America is already in a war with our neighbor to the south, Mexico, a war that we call the "war against drugs." But we might just as well call the Iraq war the war for oil as call the war with Mexico the war on drugs.

The Mexican drug cartel is so corrupt and the Mexican police and army are so corrupt that the war against the Mexican drug cartel is virtually a war with Mexico and the Mexican armed forces.

If the American economy gets bad enough and the American plutocracy thinks we need to begin rounding up illegals and sending them home to Mexico and points further south, our plutocrat leaders might think it time to change the name of the war to one that sounds more conventional.

One thing we can say for certain is that perfectly "free" enterprise has never existed and never will. But then again, we can say the same thing about perfectly cooperative human beings and that is why pure socialism will never exist either. Which I think is a good thing because I would hate to live in utopia or any other heaven. Here below is good enough for me.