Drug Policy

The Democrats who consider themselves representative of the muddled middle, and the conservatives in the Democratic Party, have not been able to think outside of the Puritan box either.

...and Democrats have been responsible for many of the bad responses to the American voters' increasing support for full legalization (and long-time large majority support for legalization of medical marijuana.)

Clinton reacted to California's quasi-legal medical marijuana by unleashing the DEA there - and as a result of their policies, they are directly responsible for the death of one well-known HIV/cancer patient who was also an author.

The strain of religious extremism in the U.S. is matched by its mirror image in other monotheisms. Different faces of the same regressive mindset.

I honestly do not understand why the U.S. has maintained such a large population of religious extremists, since other nations have histories of the same. But other western democracies seem to have been able to move beyond the simplistic thinking of religious conservatism and are, for the most part, less juvenile in their educational outcomes.

The hypocrisy of most American politicians is stunning. Once they leave office, they tend to speak with more truth. But the reason for this is because the religious extremists demand fealty to their faulty thinking and are, overall, far more motivated to vote. That's another difference. In the U.S., there is no penalty for not voting and, so, those with ideological axes to grind tend to vote more regularly than those who don't want to punish others for victimless crimes.