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Would you rather live in a country where abortion is legal, 10% of the population uses marijuana, people engage in all kinds of bizarre sexual behavior and the government seeks to control every aspect of your lives backed by 17 trillion in Chinese debt or live in a country where abortion is legal, 10% of the population uses marijuana, people engage in all kinds of bizarre sexual behavior and the government largely leaves you alone and runs on a small balanced budget?

If you honestly believe you can, at this point eliminate abortion, either legal or illegal and eliminate drug use, legal or illegal and eliminate non-heterosexual behavior, legal or illegal, you have formed your opinion in lieu of the obvious experience of the last forty years.

I wish no one used drugs, killed babies or missed the joys of traditional marriage but the world does not bend to my wishes often.

One of the greatest weapons of 'progressives' is this idea that the 'progression' they advocate (because there are other kinds) is somehow natural and inevitable. Kind of like the marxists claiming history was on their side and that capitalism would collapse under its own contradictions. Some of them were still spouting this the day before the Berlin wall collapsed. Anyway, the point is that this enables them to assert that your opposition to affirmative action, or gay 'marriage' sounds exactly the same as the opposition to slavery, or mixed race marriage, in years gone by. You are a dinosaur, who will be judged by the future as a bigot and a racist. Get on the right side of history man!

Of course it's all twaddle, designed to win arguments by sheer bluff rather than have to go through all that logic and hard debate work. There is no reason why current social trends in drug use, abortion, or sexual activity cannot be reversed, or even sheer off in some other direction. Sexual and social mores have oscillated from one extreme to another for centuries, as even a cursory examination of history will illustrate. All it requires is for people to think differently on these matters, and that is what we are in politics for. Just because the other side claims that they will prevail doesnt mean that they will, unless of course by shouting that so loud they shut us up.

In other words, FRiend...do not despair! The world may not bend to your wishes often, but it doesn't bend to theirs either.