Agreed. But why are you addressing me about this? Frankly, I don't like your the tone of your message or the inferences you're making. But I'm willing to listen to your explanation. Continue.
The Free Republic mission statement says that the Federal government is acting outside its constitutional authority in areas such as crime, education, environment, and education.
Your position, as I interpret it, is that you believe the Federal government is indeed acting constitutionally in these areas.
Is that an accurate interpretation?
Law abiding citizens/societies have every right to restrict personal behavior of individuals, that they deem harmful to society at large. You may consider that socialism, but you'd be wrong. Its law and order that reigns supreme in a civilized society and not chaos and anarchy.
I & two others replied, in detail, but we received little real argument to our comments that your ideas do indeed show a type of socialistic thinking. -- You simply deny the reality of your own words.
You are certainly NOT a 'conservative', in any conventional sense of the word.