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In reply to the discussion: Drug testing for people on welfare? [View all]Trillo
(9,154 posts)(note I didn't say "legal system", I said "culture"
Do you write a check at the grocery? (I did for many decades). ID required. In other words, you're not who you say you are until you prove it. Now we have debit cards. Enter pin to prove who you are: Guilt until innocence proven. Even logging onto my own computer, password required: Guilt until innocence proven.
There are so many ways in which our culture has daily trained us to believe we are not who we say we are until we prove it every day, often multiple times throughout the day. Undoubtedly, this has had psychic consequences.
It is not surprising that some people who are conditioned by all of these "prove you are who you say you are" mechanisms would want welfare recipients to have drug tests. All it takes is a "War on (some) Drugs", thus "the enemy" has been identified by powerful people in government, and the psychic conditioning of "guilt until innocence proven" among the people is triggered.