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In reply to the discussion: Newest poll: 59% of Americans want marijuana legalized [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)20. we're talking about one specific issue here
That has a record of change - in spite of the prison-industrial complex. That's what I was referring to - although, yes, the War on Drugs was the first route to undermining constitutional rights to privacy, etc. long before the "war on terror" (and the despots we put in power.)
No doubt the over-reaction b/c of 9-11 has had horrid repercussions. these things have happened in the past, too, and the pendulum has swung toward correcting these things at the ballot box. Debs, Japanese Internment Camps... we don't have a perfect past in any way.
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We'll put that to the test on election day in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon.
Comrade Grumpy
Oct 2012
#3
Screw 'em, let them move to a nation that lives in a democratic reality. nt
DollarBillHines
Oct 2012
#5
Yep, and Americans across party lines also want to protect Social Security benefits.
woo me with science
Oct 2012
#9