No, I'm pointing out that the reality here is no different than the reality during prohibition. Power distorted the reality, it did not make it. The consensus was that alcohol is acceptable and should be legal. People drank anyway. People made their own alcohol when they couldn't buy it. That was the reality, not the law pretending to outlaw it. And prohibition failed. It failed because it did not match the subjective consensus, which is the only reality there is. It was not reality. It was an artificially imposed construct trying to work against reality. Drug laws fail for the same reason. The market has spoken and it wants drugs. Abortion bans will fail for the same reason. (As will gun bans.) Power cannot shape reality at all.