Do you like big government?
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Yes.
The hardcore lefties actually do.
Some will admit it to you. Many wont.
It’s what they really want.
They fear everything else more than they fear powerful politicians and over-reaching bureaucrats. It’s a big scary world, and everyone from big mean corporations all the way to your fellow man are never to be trusted, neither with money, nor freedom. All previously failed socialist experiments simply were not totalitarian enough to suppress defiance, but a hardcore lefty is willing to try again.
Make no mistake, the Left likes the power of big government. In the United States, the Constitution, Congress, and Supreme Court get in the way of fully wielding this power, but they'll try anyway.