SOME things, like neoliberalism, you can blame on BOTH American political parties. But the “War On Drugs” is a Republican child. Richard Nixon’s domestic policy advisor confessed in 1994 that it targeted rights-seeking blacks and anti-war hippies, their political enemies:

https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

Should Jimmy Carter have done more with his supermajority to end the drug war? Sure. Carter’s key legacy is actually neoliberal deregulation. 

Reagan caught the drug culture-war pass from Nixon and the neoliberal pass from Carter like a champion wide receiver. I grew up in the 1980s. Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign was ubiquitous.

Drug abuse has *never* varied with race or income-level. Reagan’s super-severe crack VS powder cocaine punishment caused decades of black family separation and federal handouts to corporate prisons. Marijuana prosecution also depopulated disproportionately black areas.

This is partly why today’s black family wealth 1/8 that of whites.

I might legit write-in @tayzonday on Nov 5 with no hint of irony or lulz

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I hear you and may very well do the same as I have since voting Nader in 2000. After several election cycles I’m def fighting more nihilism and fatigue than ever 🫡

no joke he'd have my support

i can't bring myself to write him in, i want my vote to count for something this nov, so im committed to giving it into whoever is in 3rd place, with the goal of hopefully pushing them over 5% of the popular vote and getting FEC funding for next year. im voting for "no more duopoly", full stop.

but you'd still have my utmost respect for writing in tay (not his real legal name btw) who has quickly become one of my fav leftist KOL. wish he'd write a book or run for something!