Drug policy hasn't been a really hot topic for a long time. If it becomes one, you can guarantee that the right-wing media are going to sway the opinions of a lot of Republicans and conservative Democrats.

So I really would really not count my chickens before they hatch here, and would not underestimate my opponents or the gullibility and intolerance of the general public.

The fact is that illegal drug users are a minority in the United States, and a widely despised minority at that. The United States has not had a very rosy history in regards to the treatment of widely despised minorities. That history could very easily be repeated.

Voter opinion can be pretty malleable.

E.g. Republican's have become significantly more pro-Russian recently:

> Back in July 2014 just 10 percent of Republicans held a favorable view of Putin, according to a poll conducted by the Economist and YouGov. By September of 2016, that number rose to 24 percent. And it's even higher today: 37 percent of Republicans view Putin favorably, the poll found in December.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/gop-russia-putin-suppo...

This administration is so weird that I wonder if there isn't a power Illuminati style group of trolls out there.

Hear me out, I don't think I am crazy. I don't believe this, I just see it as more and more plausible every news story that comes out of the white house.

What if several of the world's richest, perhaps Gates, Buffet and a few other like minded kind souls got together. What if they did everything in their power, legal and illegal, to elect the most preposterous candidate possible. All the shouting about the election being rigged has people looking for fake democrats, not trump supporters.

Then they have this candidate do everything the wrong way, and obviously the wrong way. This is intentional, is should mobilize and unify all the people against a bunch of idiocy. By the time this is done we will either have destroy the coastline or we will all understand what CO2 can do.

Instead of trying to shroud BS arguments in a veil of reason-ability like typical a GOP politician Trump comes out and does the dumbest thing he can for "his" side of the argument. There are GOP hardliners that back him, but it seems to taper off as the crazyness continues. Eventually everyone just towing the line will be unelectable or at least powerless for a brief time and we do a bunch of objectively smart things like end the war on terror, end the war on drugs, pass more laws protecting church and state, make sure future presidents can read, strengthen our healthcare, etc....

But that is just not as simple the other explanation: Americans, my fellow countrymen, elected someone just as dumb as them.

This reminds me of the well-known saying...

"Never attribute to a shadowy cabal of illuminati, what can be more easily explained by incompetence"

That is exactly how I ended my post.