Originally Posted by MainlineFlyer

A yes freedom. Like marry who you like? Have any kind of consensual sex you like? Bodily autonomy? Freedom to organize? Honoring the results of elections? Rule of law, and not placing any one man above it? Freedom to consume whatever you like as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else? Freedom from a large and oppressive police force? Right to privacy? Freedom from having one religion dictate government policy and being able to have your kids attend public school without being indoctrinated into that religion?

These are all things the GOP stands against. Maybe you don't, but the party does.

Conservatives love to claim that they have a monopoly on freedom, but they definitely do not. While the dems lean towards large government social programs, conservatives brand of large government concerns me a lot more.

I'm gonna leave it with this. Left leaning folk have the spectrum of authoritarian communism to learn from. They need to always look at their policies with the example of how very wrong it can go if they get no push back and refuse to deal with the other side. Right wingers similarly have theocratic and fascist regemes to learn from. There is and continues to be such a thing as right wing extremism. You need to look at your policies closely and learn from history. Step one is opening a history book.