There are also valid connections between the drug running conducted by the Reagan administration, the flood of cocaine onto US streets and poor communities, the policy decisions of that administration, …………
Now, the drugs themselves were a means to another end, and it was coincidental to the rest, but while the idea of any malicious planning was at work could probably be more ably dismissed as an accidental two-fer, the culmination of it all was that the majority of working aged men in poor, predominantly black communities had little by the way of employment opportunity, and those communities also saw a suspiciously disproportionate number of fathers, brothers, and husbands hauled off to prison,
decimating the communities and the families within them further. Given the not so distant history of this country, and the rhetoric of the times, anyone who didn't smell a rat in all that would be just a little DIM.