Support Reason and Be Able to Answer This Question From Your Kids, Clones, or High-Functioning Replicants in 25 Years: "So what did *you* do during the drug war, daddy/mommy?"

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In a year, or a decade, or a generation, how will you be able to answer your kids, your clones, or your Ronald Bailey Signature Model Transhumanist Replicant with Kung Fu Grip and Lifelike Hair™

"What did you do during the drug war, Daddy/Mommy?"

Will you be able to look them squarely in their genetically modified optical receptors and tell them in a way that your voice patterns will indicate is truthful and say:

I fought hammer and tongs, kid, every way I could. Including supporting Reason, one outfit that provided the intellectual arguments against prohibition, exposes and stories that revealed the human suffering caused by stupid policies, and offered actual, pragmatic fixes to a dire situation. And had fun doing it.

Here we are, a decade into a new century and we're at, if not a crossroads of history, then at least a three-way stop intersection. Liberals and Democrats and Conservatives and Republicans are played out, their 19th-century origins and long run at being in charge has taken its toll and you now only see clowns to the right of you and jokers to the left.

Over the next year as we slog to the midterm elections, stars are aligning for a true shift away from the failed Big Daddy/Big Mommy mind-set of the right and left. People are increasingly excited by the truth that they can run their own lives and that they need the sorts of policies and attitudes that will allow that happen to the greatest degree possible. If we can order a triple mocha non-fat latte at Starbucks, we can screw up our own money supply every bit as well as Ben Bernanke. Barney Frank shouldn't be dictating what lenders can and can't do or who they have to deal with. A country in which Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee are serious contenders for a major-party nomination is a country that needs to move on boldly into a future in which government gets much smaller and individuals get much bigger. It didn't happen when the GOP was firmly in control of government and it ain't happening with Barack Obama in the big chair either.

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And then watch how the drug war punishes pain patients. And why that needs to end right now.