What economical harm has been done is anyone's guess. Untold trillions of dollars have been diverted away, as black money, leaving the US as the most indebted nation in the world, You cannot consider what was going to happen, in fifty years time, because of US policy in the fifties. This was the whole point of the debate, in the beginning. People, like Benn, have won through policies that, today, have become a terrible tax burden. NHS, it seems to me, is becoming a good case in point.
US policy has, never, condoned drugs. The public would never have allowed it. The government's pitbull, the CIA, was let off the leash to squash communist rebels in the Latin countries, to the south, undercover.The CIA exported arms and received drugs, in return, which was released onto the streets.
How do you know what policies are going to lead to a loss of motivation? In any case, by your own admission, in the closing lines of your post, you could not care less about what happens to the majority of people. I am much the same, and In my case, the socialists decided me to emigrate, A lot of others did, too. But, anyone who votes for a socialist government is going to have to take on board the idea that a large section of it wants to take care of the population. That is what socialism is all about, The trouble is that, when there is a, really, good period of prosperity social services grow to proportions that cannot be sustained in a downturn.
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