Thoughts, Barely, By Xmastime

Sometime I wonder if there's some connection between the last 30 years' trickle-down economics, which has proven time and time again to be a complete failure, and the 26-year drug war (begun the day Len Bias died.)  Both have served to cripple the country in general, yet spiral the wealthy into the uber-wealthy (with the added bonus of locking up as many black men as humanly possible)  since of course private prisons pay.  I'm not smart enough to do it myself, but I feel like there are some dots to be connected there.  I feel like these will be a stretch in history worth studying a few years from now.