Granted, it is a few dozen bungled policies ago, but remember when we were blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean as part of the administration’s Operation Dude Bro antidrug strategy? Well, the results are in, and they are sadly predictable. From The Washington Post:
In a recent assessment reviewed by The Washington Post, DEA analysts found the strikes had failed to affect the supply or price of cocaine in the United States and had led traffickers to diversify beyond go-fast boats and to avoid international waters, opting instead for larger boats and hemming close to coastlines, where U.S. forces are less likely to open fire. In a closed-door briefing last month, Pentagon officials told lawmakers the strikes in international waters off South and Central America had not reduced its purity.
The problem is that to most Republican voters, the fact that this didn’t actually impact drug supply isn’t really all that important. What matters to them is that - theoretically - “bad people” got killed. They’re more interested in punishing people they see as evil than they are in actually improving the world. Even the ones who won’t openly admit - or even admit to themselves - that they just like seeing brown people get killed will still defend this as an ultimately good action because it satisfies their twisted notion of justice. The meting out of punishment is what matters to them, far more than whatever social good that punishment is actually supposed to achieve.
It’s the same reason why they have so little interest in welfare policies even when those policies are demonstrably cheaper than the alternative. They won’t give shelter and money to homeless people even when it’s shown to reduce crime, for example, because the most important thing to them is that no one should ever be given something that they “don’t deserve.” They’re less interested in reducing crime than they are in seeing the poor suffer for whatever imagined sins made them poor.
I think the logic here is that if we punish/eliminate the “bad people” then the world will improve. But we can’t just enact policies to help people because if we try to do good things, the “bad people” will just ruin it for everyone. So it all circles back to punish/eliminate the “bad people”. And when that inevitably doesnt work, its cause there’s still more “bad people”, we just have to find them.
Since Reagan they have been pushing a “War on Drugs”. For those people “Since we are at war killing people is perfectly fine.”
Cops shooting an unarmed drug dealer in the back is okay with them. So is using the military randomly kill people in other countries.
I disagree. I don’t think that’s the reasoning at all, because they don’t even think about it that deeply. It’s not about the idea that logically this course of action will somehow make the world better. It’s about the feeling that the world needs to conform to their twisted ideas of fairness, and that feeling overrides any reason or logic.
“He’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting.”
FTFY
Its always been about racism. Same thing with all the bullshit with ICE, all of it is nothing but unfettered racism.
I literally addressed this exact argument in the comment you replied to, but you just skipped right past that part.
Yes, but you stated it like it was a secondary motive or just a bonus from killing the “bad people”. When I’m saying that the only reason for any and all action done by this administration has been to hurt people of color, plain and simple. Well that and enrich themselves in the process.
Exactly, the problem isn’t how bad trump is, there’s always going to be insanely evil people – the problem is the hundreds of millions who gave him power. There would be nothing wrong with a world where trump is the same amount of insane evil but ends up in prison where he belongs. He’s not the problem, the rest of us are.
Every word of this is true, and it requires very little conversation with anyone on the right to see how true it is.
Lemmy gold for you sir or madam.