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I was reading the Playboy Forum and there was a good article by Robert Reich who wrote the book Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America and he was also the secretary of labor under Clinton.

Here are some excerpts from his article that I would like to share:

"...Radical conservatives are intent on making private behavior the subject of public moratlity. Radcons have blended Christian fundamentalism and right-wing moralism into the larger worldview. They believe activities such as abortion, divorce, homosexuality, and sex outside marriage should be regulated and condemned by society as a whole. They think these behaviors are destroying the American family. And they blame 1960s liberalism."

"Radcons are correct in one respect: public morality is important. But private sex has nothing to do with it. Liberals should be screaming from the rooftops about the real decline of public morality, which includes fraudulent accouting and stock manipulation, insider trading, tax evasion, exorbitant pay of top executives, financial confilicts of interest and the bribery of public officials. "

"Radcons cling to their belief that society's poor and weak need to be disciplined. No sex before marriage. No welfare payments unless recipients work 40 hours a week. Lock up for years thosewho commit petty theft or are caught with drugs, to the point that American prisons are bursting. But those at the highest reaches of economic power can make their own rules."