Amusing philosophical rant, there.
Opinions are like arses: everyone has them.
Whenever anyone interjects the recant, "you're not a conservative if you..." in relationship to the illegal drug issues, I know they've lost.
Trying to discount it as an amusing rant doesn't change facts. I too, once believed that the war on drugs would work. I still wish it could. It is simply a sad reality that it won't. Ever.
If you consider what I said a political rant, then every thing Adam Smith wrote is as well, because that's where I got it from. Those Adam Smith quotes that I linked to were taken, by me, directly from the original text. Yes. I have read the entire "Wealth of Nations."
Milton and Rose Friedman (Nobel Laureate conservative econimists), hold the same opinion (read "Free To Choose"). So, if I'm ranting, I'm in good company. There is no conservative economist, that understands and believes in capitalism, that believes that the war on drugs will ever be successful. It is an economic impossibility.
If you think I am wrong. Please be specific and point out how. Knee-jerk reactions don't count.
And don't confuse people like me with wanna-be dopers. Reality does not always dove-tail with the way we would like things to be, or even with conservative agendas. I'm a conservative because I believe in following the facts where they lead you, even if it's not where you wanted to go. Fantasy is for liberals, and in the case of the drug war, for many conservatives as well.
That's too funny for words of my own so I'll regurgitate this line for 'ya.
I agree that "big government" is not a good thing, is not a goal to have and to seek and to support. However,...
When someone qualifies their Conservative credentials with "However,...", you know you ain't speaking to a Conservative! You people crack me up. Blackbird.