Moses Bomb (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mehakoi) wrote,@ 2008-03-27 16:43:00 |
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The thing about drug policy (as seen in my last post) is not that it’s the most important issue facing America
It’s that it does an admirable job of highlighting the insane combination of image politics (nobody wants to be the druggie candidate) and accepted lying (so that nobody trusts the goverment at all) that systematically keep decent politicians from doing anything productive, and good people from running.
We can’t have honest conversations. Even the best politicians slowly become so calculating, constantly hunting for the right moment to cash in there savings of political capital (a moment that often never comes), that the best anyone can do is take an educated guess at what we are voting for.
Will Obama really support health care reform? (or is it simply a slogan he took on to take the wind out orClinton
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The point is not that they are bad. It is that what they say has only a tenious relationship to anything else.
These questions and more can only be answered by tuning into next weeks episode. And probably not even then.
Meanwhile almost half of all Americans have smoked pot, yet “12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug violations are serving time for marijuana offenses.”
Nicely done.
It’s that it does an admirable job of highlighting the insane combination of image politics (nobody wants to be the druggie candidate) and accepted lying (so that nobody trusts the goverment at all) that systematically keep decent politicians from doing anything productive, and good people from running.
We can’t have honest conversations. Even the best politicians slowly become so calculating, constantly hunting for the right moment to cash in there savings of political capital (a moment that often never comes), that the best anyone can do is take an educated guess at what we are voting for.
Will Obama really support health care reform? (or is it simply a slogan he took on to take the wind out or
Does McCain actually think staying in
Is
The point is not that they are bad. It is that what they say has only a tenious relationship to anything else.
These questions and more can only be answered by tuning into next weeks episode. And probably not even then.
Meanwhile almost half of all Americans have smoked pot, yet “12.7 percent of state inmates and 12.4 percent of federal inmates incarcerated for drug violations are serving time for marijuana offenses.”
Nicely done.
