However, rightgudie does NOT believe in individual rights at all (If you read his posts you will see that.)
And judging by your posts neither do you.
You do have a point- and I agree with you here- that most people, including a growing number of moderate and liberal democrats, no longer believe that overreaching bureaucracy is a solution to how to run a government. But it cuts both ways. You see more and more conservatives wanting (for example) control of school libraries, to ban books, telling teachers that they can't teach about racism or black history, or that they can't teach that it's okay to be gay. You see more and more conservatives- including Rightguide and, well, you- who say that the government should have a right (and an OBLIGATION) to remove social freedoms because the free will of an individual should be subordinate to that of the State,and the State has an obligation to enforce a strict, draconian, and narrow version of "Morality." This is not how a free society works. It IS how many modern totalitarian governments- Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Afghanistan- work.
The libertarian ideal of less government in personal lives is a noble one- libertarian rather than "liberal." Most of the modern conservatives- the rightward leaning ones, want a libertarian ideal to apply to the wealthy, well-connected and politically powerful, as well as to corporations and buisnesses. While at the same time, they want an ANTI-libertarian- totalitarian/fascist- ideal to apply to individuals and individual freedoms. For example this is the first generation since the 1950s that women now have fewer freedoms in the U.S. than the previous generation.
