illegalizing LSD
Drug prohibition laws introduced in the 20th century are a nice counterexample to reactionaries' claim that Cthulhu only swims left, BTW.
(Edited to replace “always” with “only” -- I misremembered that quote.)
Cthulhu always swims left isn't an observation that on every single issue society will settle on the left's preferences, but that the general trend is leftward movement. If you interpreted it as that, the fall of the Soviet Union and the move away from planned economies should be a far more important counterexample.
Before continue I should define how I'm using left and right. I think them real in the sense they are the coalitions that tend to form in under current socioeconomic conditions, when due to the adversarial nature of politics, you compress very ...
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