Mr.Nick
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In what ways exactly will a Progressive guard my individual liberties more completely than a Conservative?
In two ways. One, conservatives claim to oppose tyranny by the government. Liberals are the ones who actually do: when the government wants to draft your kid and send him to war, or violate the due-process clauses of the Bill of Rights, it's liberals, not conservatives, that oppose this sort of thing.
And two, liberals also want to protect you from private agencies -- employers, polluters, corporate power in general -- that threaten individual liberties. Conservatives do not.
When was the last draft?
Conservatives do as much as is needed. Who is there to protect private agencies? Who determines which private agencies are the offending ones? When does protection of one group become persecution of another?
Do the private agencies you refer to have no rights? Can Boeing not build and staff a factory in any state it wishes? Who was protecting the citizens of the state in which Boeing was trying to expand when the government shut them down?
You play a dangerous and at the same time, cowardly game when you abandon all reason, all responsibility and all initiative to an all powerful government.
This is the game of Liberalism.
Progressives are narcissists....