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02 Nov 2009 03:28 pm
In A Decade's Time?
Jacob Weisberg heralds the death of prohibitions:
Our forms of prohibition are more sins of omission than commission.
Rather than trying to take away longstanding rights, they're instances
of conservative laws failing to keep pace with a liberalizing society.
But like Prohibition in the '20s, these restrictions have become
indefensible as well as impractical, and as a result are fading fast.
Within 10 years, it seems a reasonable guess that Americans will travel
freely to Cuba, that all states will recognize gay unions, and that few
will retain criminal penalties for marijuana use by individuals.
Whether or not Democrats retain control of Congress, whether or not
Obama is re-elected, and whether they happen sooner or later than
expected, these reforms are inevitable—not because politics has changed
but because society has.
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