Prager is no different than any Progressive who sees the government as a tool to control others. His claims of "the larger the government, the smaller the individual" ring hollow, as he constantly rails for more State intervention into society. During his program today, his argument with a pro-marijuana caller sounded like every Progressive template: "it harms people", "it doesn't produce any 'good'", "you're narcissistic", ad nauseum. The very same argument can support Bloomberg's Big Gulp ban.
If you want to understand Leftism -- and everyone needs to because it has been the most dynamic religion of the last one hundred years -- one good place to start is with San Francisco.
Or perhaps more precisely -- with nudity.
And even more precisely -- with public nudity.
Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted by the barest (pun not intended) margin -- 6 to 5 -- to ban public nudity. By public nudity, the law refers only to displaying one's genitals in public. San Francisco women are still free to walk around topless. But that is not unique...
Marijuana is legal in a couple States, and medically prescribed in several more.
Possession is legal in Detroit (this year), and several other larger cities are moving in that direction.
The problem is that is pacifies people; turns them into liberal mush.