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The “war on drugs” shifted the focus from education and social programs to mass incarceration. The US does not give a single solitary fuck about housing the homeless, unless it’s in a prison.
The war on drugs was never about the drugs. It has always been a way to legally suppress "others." You can't make it illegal for hippies, black folk, Chicanos, ect to vote. You can target groups by making things they are more likely to do illegal. The war on drugs, law and order policies, or red lining to name a few. Have always been ways to continue Jim Crow like policies while selling them to the public as good things for society.
And if anyone doubts this, it's literally ON TAPE from inside the Oval Office.
Yep, Nixon he was a funny guy. Not a lot of forethought.