The tariffs cure all?
Stopping the supply of fentanyl garners much headlines, yet no one is talking about the demand for the product? Why are the users wanting to use the drug? Who are they and what is driving the demand? The sociologists are sleeping on the job?
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… maybe since “our most recent unpleasantness” when everyone suddenly discovered that “everything had changed” when actually nothing had changed it was just that having the “down time” enabled folks to see what had always been the case.
If you think that things have changed or will change in the near future you may experience, as Yogi Berra once said, “… déjà vu all over again.” What do I mean? You may have encountered or yourself been one of those who as “our most recent unpleasantness” came to an end, remarked how shocked they were by how much that “things had changed”. I think good argument could be made that what they were experiencing instead was not that “things had changed” but instead, under the stress of encountering unavoidable overwhelming evidence had to admit to themselves that this was how things had in fact always been. For whatever reason(s), prior to our most recent unpleasantness, they either could not see or refused to see how things actually were.
Seeing things “as they actually are” has for a great many obviously become unendurable or unacceptable. Maybe they feel the drugs (this one or any other) at least offer the possibility of some hope of engaging the same “reality” every day. Just a thought …
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