[lbo-talk] "yes we can"

[B.]

Reagan can also be directly credited with the
overblown insanity that is America's War on Drugs, a
rationale for meddling all over the Western Hemisphere
militarily while keeping America's prisons
continuously swollen. 

Now "permanent drug war" just seems to be accepted as
cultural fact, so pervasive it's rarely brought up as
an issue to organize around any more. 

-B.

Doug Henwood wrote:

"Firing PATCO was the signal to begin open season on
unions. There was a transformation of domestic
priorities. And he transformed the 'common sense' of
the masses - the day to day understanding of how they
live their lives. It was all real stuff, and mostly
predictable. In fact, the transformation is probably
so complete that you're not fully aware of it."