Actually you know, despite what people say about Fox News (in surveys a huge part of the viewership is liberal for some reason) a fair number of conservatives, maybe even a majority don't have a problem with SR. I mean they think it's very naughty, but they get the concept when they hear it. A good part of that is that lots of them have had it with the Drug War. I mean even Pat Robertson thinks it's a waste of time. You have to give him credit, he changed his mind. I don't think, despite the stereotype, that left wing conservatives are any more likely to change their minds than right wing conservatives, I'd say they're about the same, it's just the issues change.The members of the public who have a problem with SR are the "outraged classes". These are the outrage junkies, "think of the children" types. Some people have a legitimate beef with the illegal drug trade and I think Darknet markets could actually compromise with these people on a range of issues such as quality control, black listed addresses and potentially age/maturity hurdles if we had a rational discussion, but few of those people act like outrage junkies. Outrage junkies predominately seem to come from the middle class, middle aged "rebel without a cause" type of person. There isn't that many of them, but they make a lot of noise. Frankly they're embarrassing and ignorant people whatever 'single issue' they're into. Basically they throw tantrums to get their way, something most mature people quit as teens.I think it's increasingly obvious that the Drug War is being fought without a democratic mandate, and that it's a war waged for and by a special interest segment of society.However I'm not sure this awareness genuinely changes anything. The Drug War never was about democracy in the first place, no prohibition was ever democratically voted into place. So undoing such a thing isn't necessarily a democratic process either. It's not a popular opinion, but legalizing drugs may only change the special interest segment from one area to another, many pro-legalization people haven't fully thought it through. If you wind up establishing government monopolies, not a lot is going to change from the current situation, you'll still have ourselves and people in prisons for "counterfeiting".I mean look at Obama, our 'liberal'. He makes Dubya look like a libertarian on most policies. Obama is the most conservative Democratic that's been in power for a long long time, but this seems to slip under some people's radar for some reason. I'm not a Republican, I think they're as bad as each other from my perspective, but it just blows my mind that some people still give Obama the benefit of the doubt, they're not being consistent with their ethics.