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America's Drug War Is So Stupid That If You Pay Close Attention To Just How Stupid It Is -- It'll Drive You To Use Drugs.

Part Of The Failure Of The Corporate Media Is That They Don't Dig Out Stories Anymore. They Are Looking Down From The Top Floors. Media Work Used To Be Something That Was Down On The Ground Level. Now They Are Looking Out Of The Windows In The Top Suites, And They Don't Know What's Going On Out There. And Then There Are The Corporate Owners Who Don't Want This Stuff Reported Because If One Town Learns That The Next Town Has Defeated Wal-mart Or Stopped Sweatshop Goods, Then Other Towns Are Going To Want To Do The Same Thing.

Some People Say We Need A Third Party. I Wish We Had A Second One.

Liberals Want To Manage The Damage With Government Programs To Take Care Of Those Who Have Fallen Between The Cracks. Populists Want To Fix The Cracks So That People Don't Fall In The First Place.

The Good News, Though, Is That I Find In My Political Travels That People, As Regular Citizens, Are More Interested Than Ever In Getting Together And Having Discussions. They Want To Hear About Other Viewpoints That Differ Entirely From What The Administration Is Putting Out.