I Love America But...

After Barack's win, I am rejuvinated in my complete faith and love in America and its mystique. However I still cant shake that other part of American politics has led to horrific mishaps. The part that always errs on the side of a harsh power. The best example is of the current state of America's penal system. We currently have something like 2.2 million people in jail. Thats more than any country in the world-- including China. Its a disgrace. Its a drain on taxes. Its destructive to race relations. Its a stain on the soul of America. And why? The Drug War.  The cruel tale of Reagan Era drug politics left potheads rotting in hellish jails for life, while rapists got off in ten years. Crack was a much higher offense than pure cocaine ( a complete fallacy in logic ) which astronomically raised the amount of black offenders, an already abused category. That backwards practice goes on to this day. The principals are  based on the decades old culture war. Which the far left lost for at least half a century in the late sixties. Hippies, Bobby Kennedy and all. Many since have suffered for it. Unfortunately it is a story of something that is hatefully undemocratic, in what is supposed to be the shining city of Democracy in the world.

With a quick denunciation of the far-right fascism in Guantanamo Bay. Perhaps we cane hope of serious progressive democracy from Obama