Are the American people more suspicious than they once were of - TopicsExpress

Arnie Silva

Are the American people more suspicious than they once were of moralism in public policy? So Ross Douthat argues in a column about legalized gambling and marijuana. The spread of casinos is driven by states seeking revenue and gaming lobbyists pressing their agenda, whereas weed legalization is driven by activists, influenced by empathy for the terminally ill, and hastened by public exhaustion with the drug war, Douthat writes. But both have been made possible by the same trend in American attitudes: the rise of a live-and-let-live social libertarianism, the weakening influence of both religious conservatism and liberal communitarianism, the growing suspicion of moralism in public policy.

Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:31:26 +0000

Are the American people more suspicious than they once were of - TopicsExpress

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