I view them as a party that wants to get stoned. Pay less taxes so they can have more money to get stoned. Have a smaller government so they don't have to worry about getting busted. Then say 'Peace' to the rest of the world.
They had good ideas in the beginning, but too much dope turned them into, well, dopes.
Come back to the Republicans -- and all you Anglo-Catholics who are getting kicked out of the Anglican Communion by the people who have the quaint idea that there are such things as Right and Wrong -- come back to the Catholic Church. We don't need two Anglican churches. We need to return to the people who believe what we have discovered we believe, after all, and help fix the things that need fixing.
I support drug legalization. But I have never used nor wanted to use any illegal drugs, even were they made legal.
I'm a registered Repub; but have Libertarian leanings. I have not, nor have I ever been a drug user.
But let's approach this logically. Has the WoD done anything other than drive the desirability of contraband up, created more addictive drugs, created a highly profitable underground and filled our jails with non-violent offenders?
Prohibition has NEVER worked. In the recorded history of man, I defy you to provide one instance where gov't prohibition of a substance has been effective.
Look what happened when some well-meaning people tried to prohibit alcohol. We inspired gangsters to move beyond gambling and prostitution, we created a market for far more potent drinks (whiskey was disdained as the drink of 'drunks'), we made a low profit commodity a high profit commodity, and how many lives were cut short? Now, you are applying the same mind set to drugs. Simply said, it doesn't work.
And I currently view the Republican party as the party that talks a good game but then goes on to expand domestic spending not seen since Johnson's Society wastes back in the 1960s. My conservative views have not changed in the least, expect perhaps to become even more conservative over the years, while the Republican party continues to move to the left to gain votes. Seriously asking, but what do I gain by voting for this party? Keep the other party out of office? I'm quite sure the Framers, who the author mentions only in passing (for fear of covering statements that would disprove his point) did not intend this as the main reason for voting.
I would also suggest this author, who mentions Washington in passing (a particular trait of party hacks who don't actually look to the whole intent but would rather quote what they need to somehow 'prove' their false points), look to his farewell address again and heed the warnings Washington gave of parties. And for the record, I am not registered as Democrat, Libertarian, or Republican.
You are correct sir!