So you openly support the gains of the left of the last 40 years, and compare it favorably to what you call our Christian “nanny state” of earlier America.
You also support the left’s and libertarian efforts to make us like European nations and you mix that up with 19th century slavery somehow.
You guys are rarely this open.
I don’t support most of the gains of the left. I don’t like that most of them simply want to replace one nanny state with another. I don’t like that so many “conservatives” simply want to reinstitute and strengthen the Christian nanny state.
The idea is that nobody can be your nanny. With that is liberty. With a nanny comes tyranny, as C.S. Lewis warned. Notice how he said the well-meaning tyrants think this will get them into Heaven? Do you think he was talking about atheists or Christians?
Being a governmental conservative can coexist with being a social conservative only if you don’t think the socially conservative views can be enforced by law. Otherwise, you’re big-government, just on the other side of the coin from the big-government liberals.