Oh, but your are ignoring the benefits of our enlightened war on (some) drugs, buddy. The need to stamp out the use of non-approved intoxicants has given us the blessings of “no-knock search warrants”, “asset forfeiture”, a prison population second to none, and state corrections officers unions wielding immense power. What you call “wasting taxpayer money” is actually a shrewd investment in establishing a complete police state. Get with the program, man!
Sinful fallen mankind tends in the same demonic direction.
The thing that can and will break through this is not “politics” but personal spiritual devotion to God. This isn’t a “religion.” It goes places that “religion” never can.