[Mase]

In my experience, economics has been what drives people to demand bigger and more onerous government to solve their concerns, not religion or social issues. It's government involvement that has mucked up social issues and created an assault on religion. The average American knows that boys can;t become girls and that grown men shouldn't be sharing a bathroom with 5 year old girls. Big government is anathema to common sense.

Trump can win, and after eight years of losing we need a win. The thought of 4-8 years of Hillary is probably more than I, or the country for that matter, could survive.

Even so, your concern about the size and scope of government is warranted.

[agere_contra]

You make a good point: Big Government allows the Left to get their evil and perverse preoccupations ratified and supported by totalitarian force.

The left’s preoccupations are anti-human: they taint normal human discourse. All social conservatives will push back on them.

But not all social conservatives discern that Big Government is half the problem, as it empowers the left’s attacks on reason and humanity. They’re not all conservative in the default, political sense.

Trump is bringing a lot of people together: it’s a truism that a great many of them won’t have an instinct for restraining government. But their other instincts are profoundly right, and they will help save America.

[agere_contra]

Very late here, so goodnight to all.

Impressive posts by you Mase; glad to know you.