Hypocrite liberals, critical of the drug war but perfectly ok with taking away much-needed opioids from chronic pain patients in the name of morality.
Over-prescribed? Maybe. But I’d rather err on that side than consigning millions of people to debilitating pain and thus condemning them to an existence bounded by constant agony.
As with abortion and reproductive rights, your morality and sanctimony should stop at someone else’s body.
Who, me? I’ve always been very specific about my pro-legalization stance not being limited to marijuana. If anything, legalizing “hard” drugs has always been a higher priority for me, since my main crusade is against exploitation, and nothing exploits like the “algebra of need.” I know what you mean, though, it’s reached the point where “liberal” is yet another brand I will need to distance myself from. Sure is lonely out here, ain’t it?
Ha, no, you seem to have a persistent habit of thinking for yourself — or perhaps that’s my self-delusion because you and I are consonant on so much.
“Liberal” as a brand — what is not a brand these days? I think the consumer relationship with brands as the result of advertising has gone back and infected everything else, too.
Modern liberalism is 90% what conservatism used to be in most ways, but the Overton window has shifted so far people think they are revolutionaries when they are more like Richard Nixon.