Construction of Justice

We are the world's worst prison nation and almost half of those people are non-violent drug offenders. With 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's inmate population, the justice system in the U.S. can be compared to other notorious and infamous governments of history. People often wonder how people could enslave others, institutionalize genocide, or how average Germans did nothing as the N**i government branded and relocated their neighbors to concentration camps. We are presently in just such a critical time in the history of our nation, yet too many of us do nothing. We are responsible for the state of our union, and a nation of sheep begets a government of wolves. We are responsible for the over-criminalization and mass incarceration of our fellow Americans. We should be angry that our billions are funding a failed 'War on Drugs' and the mass incarceration and destruction of American lives instead of education, science, infrastructure and arts. We don't have to have a perfect plan or even an agreed upon message to do something about the morally reprehensible and fiscally irresponsible state of our nation. We don't have to have money or be beyond reproach. We just have to be brave enough to construct justice.