No. Absolutely not. If you think what we have now from not really fighting a "war on drugs" is bad, you should see what happens to a nation that doesn't even put up a pathetic fight against drugs.
China was destroyed by legalized drugs. Millions died, their society collapsed, their economic output collapsed, the chaos allowed Dictator Mao to take power and kill millions more of them.
If you think what we have is bad, You don't have a realistic view of what the alternative time line would have looked like.
It’s better to live with a bad problem than have 50,000 people year die from a terrible problem.
It's better to live with a bad problem, than have 10 million people per year die from a terrible problem, like legalized drugs.
We know the police can’t win the war from 108 years of hard effort.
Hard effort? Pathetic nearly nothing effort. When we are killing a thousand drug dealers per year, then you might say we are making some effort to win. But now? We aren't killing any of these bastards.
People call it a "war" but it has been fought like a game of Badminton. It has been pathetically ineffective precisely because nobody wants to really fight it as they would an actual war.
I'll believe it's a WAR when I start seeing a body count for dead drug dealers. Till then it's a game of Tiddlywinks.
“We aren’t killing any of these bastards.”
The black folks are starting to shoot back.
“China was destroyed by legalized drugs. Millions died, their society collapsed, their economic output collapsed, the chaos allowed Dictator Mao to take power and kill millions more of them.”
The wrong type of legalized drugs.
Mao was able to take over China because of Japanese interference and Nationalist corruption.
“When we are killing a thousand drug dealers per year”
Try that and you’ll be burying 2,000 cops and five thousand court employees each year too.
Court employees can’t hide. Many drug dealers know where the courthouse is on Capitol Hill.
The courts will put an end to your drug war, for good.
Drug dealers are being executed literally every day, without benefit of a trial, by other other drug dealers. It hasn't stopped anything. New ones are always waiting in the wings. But you think that if the government starts executing them, that will magically make some huge difference?