I only hope,
@deficiT that one day, on a bright morning such as this, that you and I get to pull the lever of the guillotine, hand in hand, fingers-laced, as we decapitate the last of our fat American aristocracy and remit all current and former DEA members to the prison hulks described in Les Miserables. We will rebuild them. We will rebuild rats. We will make lice a thing again.
I am a history lover. I've always had a major hard on for revolutions like the French Revolution of the late 18th century. I love not only to study the politics of it all, but the psychology of populist policies and how things get out of hand. In short, it's my belief, that, while I do know everything there is to know and probably know better than any of you how life is meant to be lived, I would probably fail as "dictator for life" of my own little commune. I would want to punish those who I felt had wronged me.
I remember hearing repeatedly from my liberal New England teachers "Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely". I don't know if that is an Orwell quote. Basically, I think I could make things better for addicts and their health, but who really knows how badly I would fuck things up in the pursuit of what I believe to be right?