Sure, it's an old game... but that doesn't make it any less reprehensible. I agree that the War on Some Drugs is entirely about the money involved. Thick-headed morons that think that we could possibly punish drug-users straight... or shame homos straight for that matter... are being used by the Drug Warriors. They are not the cause of the War.
What I am saying is that THIS is Democracy at work. We were not meant to be Rome, for God's sake! The Founding Fathers knew full well how THAT turned out when they were debating the Constitution. America was founded on the principles of a Representative Republic featuring an extremely weak federal government body that was to be tightly constrained in scope and power. The most powerful force in the original America, at least in theory, was the law-abiding, moral individual. In modern America, those guys get thrown under the bus on a daily basis. We traded our Republic for a Nanny State, and Nanny's exist to discipline and constrain you as much as they do to coddle and feed you.
Here's a nice little exercise. I'm gonna give you a CSpan link to a search page. The first video is John Edwards' Town Hall in NH yesterday. Load it up and fast forward to 34:34 to see Little Miss America's Future and her expectations of her Nanny Dream State. She's looking for a Daddy, not a President.
http://12.170.145.161/search/basic.a...&image1=Submit
It's not just about the old fogeys anymore, Toto...