Oh, that's been the MO of the right wing for some time. Consider this quote from John Ehrlichman, counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon.

“You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

The joke is, that really is a waste of money.

Everyone hates the poor completely unbidden.

Hear hear, Mr Wildcat. Hopefully, people will remember that quote when it comes time for fear-mongerers to push the state's next round of prohibitions.

I can see why FLA is kinda split. I wish Miami would dominate it politically, but I guess it's the old folks and north FLA rednecks ruining everything.