“Death penalty for drug dealers” will just further extrapolate the War on Crime/War on Drugs in doing absolutely nothing to address the actual problem, but excuse greater and greater abuse of power and terrorizing of marginal communities.

And as always, the reason given for the choice is bad faith. It’s not meant to work to solve addiction, just like its predecessors policies that “toughen” sentences weren’t meant to work.

Every single time—the reason given is a Trojan horse for whatever shit they think they can justify. It’s what unifies all these reactionary nutters.

They’ve emptied out God, Jesus, and the Bible. They’ve scraped the content out of the Constitution and thoughts out of the Founder’s biographies. “Ronald Reagan” is a deliberate mythic construct worthy of a Bioshock setting, “Andrew Breitbart” is being bowlderized as we speak. “Law and order” means nothing, nor do “rights.” Empiricism is contemptible and counterfeits are emotionally “true” enough to justify sweeping actions. Everything is weighed on the balance of: how do we justify whatever we want at the moment, using the cultural lexicon of “what is Good”?