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I … don’t … understand?

So everyone and their mother are complaining about big government and one of the two guys who has good chances of becoming the nominee is in favor of doing draconian (fascist, even) big government stuff. What?!

American voter, what’s going on? I’m only confused. I have given up making sense of it.

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This is old hat.

Leftists want the government to leave people's private lives alone and stick their fingers in everyone else's business lives.

Conservatives want the opposite.

It's the neo-conservative campaign slogan.

Get out of my business, and get into my bedroom!

The neocon motto is: "Tell them what they want to hear, so long they keep paying for the empire"

I think you're mistaking "neo-conservative" with social conservative.

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