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Originally Posted by ruff
Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971 to keep students and blacks down, no more no less. Same tactics as today.
Nixon moved the country to the right and he was never a popular president.
When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal. A quote by Nixon.
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The "War On Drugs" has been the root cause of a LOT of problems for the United States. Probably one of the worst things ever done. Caused so many deaths and so much violence.
On your observation about Nixon moving the country to the "right"...uh, I was a young teenager at the end of Nixon's Presidency and an absolute news junkie.
Nixon was definitely NOT to the "right" on much of anything. Matter of fact, he would be a "RINO" in today's world.
The country was moving to the left during that whole time period.
From JFK all the way through Carter was a very liberal time in the United States. Maybe the most "free" that many people will ever see again in our modern times.
Despite the "War On Drugs"...recreational drug use was very accepted in social circles. Sex was something that everybody did with everybody else...AIDS changed that in the 1980's.
There were true LIBERALS who were anti-govt. all the way and anti-war all the way. Not like the fake ones of today who LOVE the govt. and the CIA and are ready to go to war at the drop of a hat.
I was 18 when Carter left office and Reagan assumed the Presidency. I have to tell you that the country started heading "Right" when that happened because of Reagan's religious right coalition propelling him to power.
Nixon? Very much a RINO type non-conservative Republican President. Probably the most liberal Republican in modern times...except for Trump.
EDIT: Wanted to throw in that Nixon never got serious about the War On Drugs. The DEA was created by the Nixon Administration. But they only had a handful of agents and no budget to do anything.
It stayed that way until Reagan. THEN it got ratcheted up. Now in 2017 it employs almost 11,000 agents and has a budget of billions.