There is a lot about politics and “current events” which makes absolutely no sense as long as you are still assuming noble intentions on the part of those in power, but which makes perfect sense once you accept that the people who are at the top of the governmental power structure are genuinely malicious, to the point of being psychotic and downright evil.
A prime example is the destructive insanity perpetrated by the U.S. ruling class in the name of the “war on drugs.” While a lot of conservative voters who still cheer for such authoritarian violence may still have noble intentions—albeit drastically misguided noble intentions—there is exactly no chance that the people in power actually making it happen are doing so from virtuous motives. If you doubt that, here are some things that you necessarily must believe:
1 - Shortly after watching alcohol prohibition result in a massive, obvious increase in violence, corruption and crime—including organized crime—the well-intentioned politicians honestly believed that trying the exact same thing with other substances was going to have a dramatically different outcome.
2 - After many decades of spying, harassing, searching, detaining and caging many millions of non-violent people, and seeing that “illegal” drug use is still going strong, those in power still actually think that ending it is just a few more laws, and a few more paramilitary raids away from being a reality.
3 - The politicians actually believe that letting more people do something that makes them mellow and happy (marijuana) is more destructive to society than inflicting never-ending fascist violence upon millions of non-violent people.
4 - Those in power are not aware of the fact that all of the violent drug gangs in the U.S., as well as the Mexican drug cartels, would be out of business almost immediately if drug prohibition was ended.
5 - Those in power truly believe that, even though they have never been able to keep “illegal” substances out of their own prisons, they are still thinking they can keep them out of an entire country.
6 - The politicians haven’t noticed that creating an “illegal” market in “narcotics” has resulted (just as alcohol prohibition did) in people using and becoming addicted to far more dangerous substances than would exist in a free market.
7 - Those at the top of “government” haven’t noticed yet that, where “drugs” have been decriminalized, the result was not chaos, mayhem and widespread addiction; the main result was a drastic decrease in “government” violence.
8 - The politicians really and truly believe that millions of lives being ruined by the draconian “war on drugs” has been good for humanity.
While a lot of voters may be naive and gullible enough to think that drug prohibition is a good thing, there is no chance that the people at the top of “government” are unaware of all of the history and statistics showing that, when it comes to the well-being of society, the “war on drugs” has been nothing short of a heinous atrocity, and that continuing it will only bring more of the same.
No, lunatics like Jeff Sessions do not mean well. (Nor does Trump; nor did Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or the other Bush, etc.) They know the “war on drugs” will never, and can never, be “won,” and in fact never had any intention of “winning” it, but instead have always had every intention of continuing to use it as an excuse for more and more intrusive, abusive, violent authoritarian power, knowing full well that the result would be more innocent people suffering and dying, both from consumption of unnecessarily dangerous substances, and from the violence created by the black market, at the hands of drug gangs and cartels, as well as at the hands of desperate and deranged addicts, and perhaps most importantly, at the hands of desperate and deranged “law enforcers.” (Also, as it happens, it is becoming more and more obvious, even to the general public, that the biggest drug-runner in the game is the C.I.A., so for the U.S. "government" to pretend to be trying to combat “illegal drugs” is just ridiculous.)
Yes, they really are that evil. No, the “war on drugs” did not fail, because the stated goal (ending or at least significantly reducing “drug” use) was never the actual goal. The “war on drugs” has been a smashing success, because it has achieved its actual goal—what it was intended to do from the beginning—which was causing strife, pain, fear, suffering and death, which would then be used by psychopaths as an excuse for ever-increasing “government”-sanctioned surveillance, harassment, persecution and murder.
(P.S. The fact that personally I’ve never used, and never had any interest in using, so-called “narcotics,” or even alcohol or cigarettes, doesn’t mean that I can’t see and condemn the profound widespread evil that has been done in the name of the “war on drugs.”)
