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For left-of-center American liberals, Milton Friedman was an enlightened adversary,
Absolutely -- the man was The Enemy. Capital E. Especially with his views on illegal drugs.
People who count themselves as left-of-center should hate the idea of legalizing drugs. After all, the War on Drugs is known to target mainly wealthy kingpins from the upper class.
The Drug War has done more to redress racial and socioeconomic imbalances in the country than any government program funded by the taxpayers since the Civil War.
Thanks to those mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine, American prisons are now well-behaved pristine havens of racial and class harmony.
And look what the Drug War has done for gun control! Criminals have to fight with rock-paper-scissors now. It's a whole different world in the ghetto and the barrio!
And besides, according to the UN, the entire world is on schedule to becoming drug free by 2008.
So this whole debate will be history by the next election. We won't ever need to strain our brains over drug policy ever again.
That Milton Friedman, he was the Class Enemy, alrighty.
Who needs him and his right wing ideas? Not the left, that's for sure.
