“There are just as many authoritarians on the right as on the left, they just have different opinions on what they would like to use the power of the state to force upon people.”
Once we agree that there is a degree, an appropriate level of force exercised by the state (don’t kill people, don’t steal their stuff, et cetera), then we’re just arguing over where the line should be.
When we look at where the left wants to draw the line, as opposed to the right’s commitment to liberty and limited government, your statement is seen to be incorrect.
Conservatives are closer to liberty and God on the right, while the left is closer to tyranny and Satan on the left.
“Once we agree that there is a degree, an appropriate level of force exercised by the state (don’t kill people, don’t steal their stuff, et cetera), then we’re just arguing over where the line should be.”
The line was already drawn in our Constitution.
“When we look at where the left wants to draw the line, as opposed to the right’s commitment to liberty and limited government, your statement is seen to be incorrect.”
Nonsense. Someone who is happy with the Federal government regulating drugs when there is nothing in the Constitution to authorize that is not committed to liberty and limited government. They might give lip service to those things, but their actions betray them.
All the people who want to “redraw the line” instead of accepting where the line has already been drawn in our highest law of the land, are authoritarians. They just differ on how they would use the ill-gotten power they want to steal from the people.