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Many "conservatives" walk a fine line on the other side of which is totalitarianism.

"The people demand a strong ruler" - that kind of crap.

Our government was constituted to secure the individual liberties of a free, self-governing people. What the hell is so wrong or hard to understand about that? And why are "conservatives" so afraid of the concept?

Hank wrote:

Many "conservatives" walk a fine line on the other side of which is totalitarianism.

"The people demand a strong ruler" - that kind of crap.
Our government was constituted to secure the individual liberties of a free, self-governing people. What the hell is so wrong or hard to understand about that?

And why are "conservatives" so afraid of the concept?

I can't figure it either. -- Here we have a 'conservative' USSC Justice, -- who is afraid of:

"certain activities, not because they harm others but because they are considered, in the traditional phrase, 'contra bonos mores,' i.e., immoral.
In American society, such prohibitions have included, for example, sadomasochism, cockfighting, bestiality, suicide, drug use, prostitution, and sodomy."

--- It baffles me why these people feel the need for such prohibitions over and above the reasonable regulations allowed by our Constitution.