This crusade against SW's is hypocrisy, a weird alliance of both right and left wing puritans to stamp out a naturally enjoyable act between consenting adults.
Literally millions are in the grip of addictions that impoverish people and hasten them into the grave, and
that's the thing that want to legalize?
Meanwhile, disaster hits society on every other front, and they just dither & deflect.
Every part of the political spectrum here has failed society and sold out whatever once passed for their principles. Or just warped their beliefs to the point where absurd contradictions no longer matter to their activists.
Politicians don't want any competition in the market for fucking the taxpayers.
I think you'll find the real competition is between big business and organized crime, which are more and more the same thing.
Politicians try to serve whatever faction among that which brought them into prominence.
A few try to be better than that, but are up against a huge machine which does not like when principles contend against marketing.
Understand that politics is a huge machine, and the political parties & candidates are just a small part of it.