The GOP is worse than the Democrats, with their defunding of programs for the poor and working class, and draconian policies against drug use that amount to locking up addicts and criminalizing them. Stripping people of their access to housing, education, and employment if they get convicted of a drug-related crime. These types of policies are directed specifically at blacks by white Republicans. Nixon after the civil rights victory of blacks in America, started the drug war. The CIA backed mostly by right-wing Republicans, was pumping drugs into the black community: