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In the Era When Conservatives Take Responsibility for Nothing
Trump declared trade wars on Canada and Mexico because Americans have an insatiable appetite for drugs.
In response to Trump’s ludicrous trade war, the sane and honorable president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, gave a speech of historic proportions Trump could never make. Sheinbaum asked the most obvious question of all. In asking this question, she explained to the world Trump’s whole twisted rationale for punishing our closest allies. Why does Trump focus all the blame on Mexico, Canada, and China for our nation’s fentanyl crisis but not the insatiable appetite Americans have for illicit drugs?
I have long asked this question. What is so wrong with our society that people can’t spend more time in reality and prefer to be lost in some altered, twisted, barely coherent state? My brother died from a fentanyl overdose when he was 32. From the time he was 13 or so, he began experimenting with pot. Pot quickly became ecstasy. Ecstasy eventually became opioids, and then, when they became too expensive and less accessible, heroin. The dealer, who still lives not far from where my brother died, who sold him the fentanyl, told my brother’s girlfriend he didn’t know it wasn’t just heroin. She overdosed four months later.
