But it's not like getting drafted. It's not like spending one's entire adolescence and high school years watching the bodies pile up every damn night first in b&w and then in color, and then having it go on and on through college and then, just as one wants to get a job and start a career to have his life disrupted for years by a military "obligation", or just as one wants to marry and begin a family to have her boyfriend torn away and shipped overseas for years over something as ugly as a useless war. But let them keep pushing and see what happpens.

I have higher hopes for minority groups organizing against the drug war, considering its strong racist element, and I think that much progress could be made for both sides by coalitions between anti-war and minority groups. Certainly the anti-prohibition groups need some friends. In some comments you have expressed incredulity and impatience with the failure of minority leaders to be more vocal and articulate about drug-war racism. The problem here, I think, is that Black leaders and people have made the oversight, which has so many manifestations, of confusing drugs with the drug war. Understandably so, too: for they, more than others have been victimized by the cultural and drug wars. They believe, and there's a lot of truth to it, that the ghettos have been targeted by the government for drug addiction, and in part this occurs also not by design but by happenstance that the poor are easier legal targets, easier for the police to victimize even though drug use among Blacks is equal to or lower than among Whites. My point is that it is easy to understand how the Black response has been more antagonistic to drugs themselves, a misdirection in my opinion, than to the war on drugs.

More like self-defense.

Also, a large and rapidly growing number of students take their degrees via Internet classes. They are relatively isolated and not exposed to ideas outside their textbooks or to free-thinking people or alternate lifestyles.

Finally, today's students are dumb. The surge of baby boomers in the sixties allowed universities to be far more selective than they are today. At the University of New Mexico, famous for its multiple choice exams throughout the entire undergraduate course, only one in four incoming freshmen manages to graduate after six years.