A forlorn political hope

[nancylebov]

Have the Tea Partiers said anything about the War on Drugs? It seems as though they should be against it-- it's a presumptuous invasion of personal freedom, and it's hideously expensive.

Ghu knows, I'd rather not be looking to them for hope, but there's no promising large scale political opposition to the War on Drugs (just some moderate progress on medical marijuana). Libertarians aren't great at organizing, and as nearly as I can tell [1], any other opposition is the very occasional judge or prosecutor who's gotten disgusted with the ineffectiveness, cruelty, and corruption of the WoD.

In America, it's typical for third parties to never win, but to have some of their ideas adopted by the two major parties.

[1]In other words, let me know if I'm missing something-- the last time I asked (on usenet, so it was a while ago) about opposition to the WoD from the left, I was given a bunch of names, but they were all comedians. There were no politicians.

Comments

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

I've always said this country should have more than two parties. I'm willing to accept that there will be parties that I wouldn't attend if my life depended on it. Now it's time for a Radical Liberal party to balance the Teas. It would fight for marijuana legalisation, a single-payer healthcare system and a high-speed intercity rail system. And if elected...

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I used to hear a lot of people say they wanted a good social safety net plus individual liberty, but there wasn't any political home for them. Maybe it's time to work on a political movement.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

Hey kids! Let's start a revolution!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked at it in depth, but there's a "Coffee Party Movement" going on over at FB in response to Teabaggers.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

Too many bad memories from the "Coffees" of the Clinton years.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I think it's mostly tongue-in-cheek, as far as the name, but the idea seems to be to have a *real* liberal party, or a movement in that direction, since the Tea guys are talking about taking over the Republicans. Also, Avedon Carol has been talking about TL4O, "too liberal for Obama", which is another "take back the left" thing.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

Now, that's a name with some snap to it!