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This is the politics blog of Alexander Ward, just your average socialist anarchist Jewish atheist.
All my own work is licensed (excluding quotations and links etc.) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
“When I was a kid, I inhaled. That was the point.”
— Old quote from Barack Obama, on his cannabis use. More information here.
“Creationists are people who are intellectually deprived.”
— Michael Rees, from an interview in the New Statesman. Not strictly political, but it’s an important topic currently being discussed in education, particularly in the USA.
These past two years have been rough on America. We’ve seen our nation’s fortunes wither and the proud American workforce sidelined by a crippling recession. Millions of otherwise capable and intelligent Americans in the prime of their lives are now unemployed, scraping by on a pittance from the Government. It is hard to see how anything good could come of such a terrible situation. But allow me to offer one idea: we could legalize marijuana.
The problem with legalizing marijuana in the past has not been that the plant itself is dangerous or that the government couldn’t make a killing off of it, it’s that the wrong people were asking. Think about it. When you see a Legalize It protest, who do you see protesting? Dreadlocked white college students, old hippie burnouts who may or may not be aware the Vietnam War has ended, schizophrenics who claim to be the living incarnation of John Lennon. Why would the government ever listen to them? If the government listened to them we’d be watching frisbee on ESPN and being “really unchill and sh*t” would be illegal. The problem with legalization protests is not the message, you see, it’s the protesters.
But now we find ourselves with millions of people with the free time, the lack of consequence and, most importantly, the normal clothes and haircuts to work the picket lines. In the past, fear of losing your job or time commitments may have kept regularly employed marijuana enthusiasts away from the pickets lines but that’s not a concern for millions of Americans now. It’s hard to get fired or have your pay docked when you no longer have a job, right? So instead of working on that novel you always knew you could write or eating yet another depressing microwaved dinner, how about getting out, getting loud, and changing the country?
Absolutely hilarious.
Parody of Peter Mandelson PC, on the television programme “Mock the Week”.
“But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations when we replace home education by social.”
— Karl Marx/ Friedrich Engels, from the book/ pamphlet, “The Communist Manifesto”.
