I mean, I voted for her knowing she was going to lose if that helps you at all. Same for Clinton actually, who ran on an identical platform and lost to the same fucking guy.
It's on the Democrats. for absolutely refusing to run on policy. Twice.
I have fond memories of stealing my buddy's S10 with a screwdriver. We had summer school together and I'd move it down the lot. To get me back one time he and a few of the other delinquents picked up my Tercel and carried it to a different lot. Good times.
Sorry the dimension you've been transported to has laws of physics that don't allow water to exist.
Which means you've got a few precious seconds to get yourself home before you violently erupt as your water molecules each individually break apart in to hydrazine.
This is literally a Good Ole Boy network at work. It looks like he's a dairy farmer, though how much actual labor he does is anyone's guess. He may also be a redneck, but he's a good ole boy, and this is what that looks like when that system is working.
The war on drugs was a dog whistle continuation of the Jim Crow era. Because it was now illegal to discriminate against black people simply for being black, new methods of oppression needed to be instituted. When Nixon announced the war on drugs, drug use was going down and was approaching it's lowest point in decades. His hope was that by finding ways to continue to police black people, he'd win support of Southern Democrats who were largely at the time, pro labor but mad about the civil rights movement.
This strategy worked, and it was continued and expanded under Reagan. When Nancy Reagan pleaded with Americans to 'just say no' drug use was at about 3% nationwide.
American police were always a tool of oppression of black communities. They grew out of post civil war racist brotherhoods like the KKK. On multiple occasions, entire chapters of KKK members were deputized.
The narco trafficking the CIA did was a natural progression of this, and was used as an excuse to further militarize the police.
"Because they were black" is a simple answer. And it's correct. But you could add "and black people are who we oppress in this country."
There was that one time when Grant really tried. He actually made progress too.
It was all immediately undone the second he was out of office. But he did make progress.