What I find succinct in what you say is who are the true liberals and who are the authoritarians?
I would suggest that we are more aligned with freedom.
We put that in a wide forgiving social frame work and the so called left tries to pigeon hole every thing and define us in their diversity/s
The Left is crazy.
I cant go off into a field half a mile away from any one to smoke(on my own time) and some one gripes.
But the same group of folks think we should make smoking pole mainstream and we should afford health care benefits to same sex partners with AIDS.
Honestly NONE of this stuff is the Govs business.
I totally agree. They divide everyone up into their voting blocks and than pit them against each other. If you happen to not be in a preferred block than your screwed. I don’t much care what you do as long as it doesn’t affect others, than I say more power to you. I don’t have much use for people that always want to expand what govt can do for me. Eventually It always feels like they are doing it to me instead of for me.