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[In the case of giving up smoking, the overt behavioral change of unforced conversion appears identical to the change induced by forced conversion.

Progressives do not see that there is an immaterial difference.

Why?

They are committed to a materialist ideology.

Big Government Liberalism is the Materialist Ideology that won the Cold Battle Among the Enlightenment Gods (1945-1989), otherwise known as ‘the Cold War’.

Is it no better than the material ideology that lost the war?

Satan casts out Satan.

Yet, “his” house still stands.]