The Right Is About To Declare War On
Marijuana
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There’s
a joke on the left that if Obama came out in favor of breathing air,
conservatives would smother themselves.
We found
out that this wasn’t much of an exaggeration when First Lady Michelle Obama
asked Americans to drink an extra glass of water a day and the right exploded in outrage.
Mind you, she didn’t say “don’t drink other stuff.” She only said to drink an
extra glass of water. So the right literally came out against drinking water.
We on
the left call this “Obama Derangement Syndrome.” It’s a hatred of Obama and his
family that is so absolute, conservatives will oppose anything they do, even if
they agreed with it beforehand.
Obama kind of sort
of support marijuana? WE HATE IT NOW!
Now that
Obama has stated that marijuana is no worse than alcohol, we have the perfect
test to prove ODS. Up until now, marijuana legalization has been a bipartisan
issue. The right wing opposes the War on Drugs because it’s a HUGE waste of
money and hasn’t worked.
The libertarian right wing wants marijuana to be legal
because they don’t like the idea of the evil government telling them they can’t
get high. The left wing opposes keeping marijuana illegal for the same reasons
as well as the blatantly racist way the law is enforced. Somehow, despite
blacks and whites consuming marijuana at the same rate, blacks are four times
more likely to be arrested for it.
But
because of the additional social justice angle for liberals, pot legalization
is slowly becoming a “liberal” cause. The theory of Obama Derangement Syndrome
tells us that the right will reflexively oppose it. They will start to claim
that it’s a liberal ploy of some kind and that all good conservatives must
oppose it with their dying breath. It really isn’t a “liberal” thing at all but
that’s not going to stop the conservative entertainment
complex from whipping
the right into an anti-marijuana frenzy.
Here’s
the video:
But the real test for ODS will be how the Right reacts to Obama’s small shift
to the left on marijuana legalization. The GOP desperately needs the
younger libertarian movement to replace the rapidly shrinking “angry old bigot”
demographic. But if Obama is for it, how can the right be for it as well?
Everything Obama does is bad for America, after all! If the right holds true to
form, they will alienate the stoner right rather than agree with the Dread President
Obama. But only time will tell…