Name a single issue, other than gay marriage and perhaps drugs, where we are to the left of where we were a generation ago. There aren't any!
Public opinion is, but public policy isn't.
The abortion issue is the one that I am most familiar with, and public opinion is far more pro-life than 20 years ago.
It's still 50/50, actually.
It's 50-50 now, as opposed to like 2-1 pro-choice in the 1990s.
More people consider themselves pro-life, yes, but that's irrelevant when it doesn't correlate to an increase in the number of people saying it should be illegal in all circumstances.
The first graph is much more important.
