Border security, drugs all tied up in republican racism

Richard Nixon won via the Southern Strategy, i.e. appeal to the racists in the South. Ronald Reagan cemented the Southern Strategy by courting the crazies in religion. George Bush made the head of the neocons, Dick Cheney, king. The republican party is now coalescing as the fringe elements of racism, religion and thuggery. What a party.

Here's what I don't understand. Why listen to the batsh*t crazy crowd for solutions when you know that those solutions are based on failed ideology, racism and fear? When you begin to think logically, then the obvious appears: Legalize drugs. Take away the profit motive. Provide the safest drugs you can and tax them. Offer rehab.

Drug cartels are awash in money and they know how to use that money to cement their power and control. It may already be too late in some respects. The drug cartels have a big head start in financing whatever endeavors they like.

John D. Negroponte, a Bush I era official, says patience. Why? Haven't we already had more than enough patience for a failed policy?

A former U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Thursday in Washington, D.C., that it will take 10 years for Mexico to break free from the violence that has taken hold and killed about 23,000 people.

Not everybody likes the idea of troops on the border.

About 100 people protested President Barack Obama’s plan to deploy about 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border Thursday morning.

At the El Paso County courthouse, protesters lined up with handmade signs and chanted in English and Spanish, shouting “No National Guard on the border, no need to bring more disorder.”

That d*mn fence and troops are tools of the racist thugs. Lets try common sense.