Hey /pol/, OP here.
As usual, I'm a fucking idiot, so I'm begging you to redpill me on this phenomenon pushed by the Reagan administration so fuckin hard it gave us cultural echoes (D.A.R.E.).
Give it to me, fuck my stupid face with your knowledge.
Bumping to show I'm serious.
All the backroom dealing between the government and the cartels really just tells me the state needed a way to make money off drugs without "lowering" themselves by just legalizing it and taxing it.
>>136562873
you're close.
you see, we have this thing called an economy.
the economy that we have here in the u.s.a. is part of the global market that was established properly after the end of ww2.
south/meso american countries had tons of drugs as export.
after "extensive" research, it was concluded that reagan could garner more votes from the tv watching crowd (everybody in the 80s) by appealing to the homemakers.
however, this political tactic was a byproduct of a more direct reason, the economy.
more prisoners = more prisons = more taxes = more propaganda = more prisoners = more prisons = more taxes = more propaganda
ad infinitum.
and if it ruined the future of the black youth, nobody cared.
nobody cared because it was either prison, welfare, or war for them anyways.
this is what is known as "capitalism".