Three bottles of much-scrutinized beer

Tom Philpott offers a self-consciously inconsequential critique of this afternoon's just-three-guys-talking-it-out-over-a-beer event at the executive picnic table: while Dr. Gates is drinking a marginally respectable Red Stripe, why are James Crowley (I still can't believe that's his name!) and the president drinking, respectably, fake Belgian beer made by an American swill monolith and formerly American swill now owned by a Belgian monolith?

Elsewhere, a couple of Christian temperance folks have an equally inconsequential but evidently entirely UN-self-conscious suggestion: drink lemonade instead! Leave aside the question of whether drinking corn syrup and flavoring--I'm assuming they have in mind regular-guy, I-swear-I'm-not-an-arugula-eating-elitist lemonade, as with the beer choices--is a net improvement on drinking 12 ounces of something that's 5 percent alcohol. Here's the real question--can anyone read this quote, from Rocky Twyman:

Studies show that alcoholism leads our previous youth to use harder drugs like cocaine that is responsible for vicious youth crimes, especially in inner-city America that gave Obama large electoral margins.

and deduce that our country's great moral failing is not a power and principality of racism that poisons (often well-intentioned) people's actions but instead...drinking?