That's what the big government liberals used to call conservatives--because they got in the way of their progressivist reformist cradle to grave utopian nanny state.
Here are the words of another old conservative who also, like Mencken and Nock, must be spinning in his grave now that nanny state church ladies like you call yourselves "conservatives."
"We have over the past 20 years, in the interests of 'national security,' laid the foundations of the emerging American police state, where there is no liberty, no privacy and no peace. Persecution of dissenters of any kind will soon be as routine as egg and milk deliveries. No one will question the dictates of Washington. By winning the war against fascism, we have become the fascists and will probably lead the world into a horrfiying catastrophe from which few will live to tell the sad tale."--Robert Taft (1950)
Poor RFoberft Taft, talkikng like that in 1950 and poor YOU, attempting, by implication, to claim that old rubarb, about livikng in a " police state ". You don't knolw what living in a POLICE STATE really IS like, nor much about fascism either. And yeah ...Ike was a " FASCIST "; right.
Now, here's a thought, whacky as it might be...build a tikme machine and go back to when you imagine things were better. You wouldn't be " happy " at all then, either. :^)