11-21-2021, 01:59 PM
(11-21-2021, 12:10 PM)samhain Wrote: Who exactly were they going to support that had an alternative view? If HW Bush was in office, do you actually think he wouldn't have employed a similar countermeasure? Are you trying to paint the Republican Party of the 90's as weak on drug crime policy? The War on Drugs itself started during an administration in which Bush served as VP.
Given that there are only two realistic options, what did you want them to do? Vote for Gatewood Galbraith? LOL. There wasn't a viable candidate in existence in either party in that era that would have taken any path other than the one that the public would perceive as being "tough on drugs". If they did, they'd have lost whatever election they ran in in a landslide.
It's false to try and apply blame to Clinton or any administration in this case. If blame is to be assigned, it's to a majority voters who fell hook, line, and sinker for the narrative that all drug crime needed to be punished as harshly as possible. It's to a media that scared the shit out of everyone with a TV by running stories and sensational headlines that made the average American think that their kids were all going to become or be harmed by a horde of zombie drug addicts if something heavy-handed wasn't implemented quickly.
You're totally missing my point. My point is not about who would have done what. The Democrats wrote the bill, the community considers is racist, and blame the Republicans. What part of that hypocrisy is escaping you? And if you don't think those drugs crimes needed to be punished as harshly as possible, you simply were not there to see the crime scenes and the devastation those crimes brought to the community.
