Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
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Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
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The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
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Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
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