I don’t have television at home but when I’m on vacation I watch it to see what I’m missing.
There is this program about prisoners jailed in a stationary barge in NYC.
“Mike is here on a drug charge,” the voiceover explains.
“Josh is incarcerated on a drug charge.”
“Jose, Pedro and Juan. . . drug charges. . .”
“Justin is here for a parole violation.”
Oh, finally, I think. A real criminal.
“He is now serving the remainder of his drug conviction.”
The camera moves to a women’s penitentiary.
“Jessica is serving a sentence for drug possession. So is DeShawna. Breana started serving her drug-related sentence. . .”
All of this probably serves some purpose but I’m not sure which.
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All you really need these days is Netflix (both streaming and at least an option where you can check out 1 or 2 DVDs per month in an unlimited manner) and Hulu Plus and maybe basic cable if you’re interested in sports. I’ve been watching a ton of great stuff on Netflix and caught up with shows that I hadn’t seen in a long time and giving ones I’d always heard about like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia a chance. Can’t wait to check out some of Netflix’s exclusive content. They’re bringing back Arrested Development exclusively for their streaming platform and I hope they do the same for Futurama, which Comedy Central cancelled recently after being revived several years ago. FOX had originally cancelled that show and Family Guy and thanks for Adult Swim reruns and high DVD sales, both shows were revived.
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Now, you see why the War on drugs is the main reason for civil-war-like incarceration rate.
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There seem to be many, many obvious truths in American politics which are taboo to point out in “mainstream” political discourse.
That the War on Drugs is a failed, racist, waste of money is one such truth.
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Absolutely! 🙂
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Which purpose is served by this idiocy? Crowds of people are in jail, another crowd is guarding them, yet another one is hunting them down. Horrible.
And it isn’t like any of those convicts were drug lords. Just poor schmucks who sold a few pills or whatever.
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The devil makes work for idle hands
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Which purpose is served by this idiocy?
Helpfully, you answer your own question:
another crowd is guarding them, yet another one is hunting them down.
Add to those people an economically illiterate suburban middle class that is afraid of their kids becoming addicts or some such, and has been fed a steady diet of lies, half-truths, and distortions, and you have the makings of a durable political coalition that can at least block substantive change, if not necessarily effect further change.
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“Which purpose is served by this idiocy?”
There’s always at least someone who benefits financially when the government spends massive amounts of money. Recently, private prisons are a big one.
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