So-called "conservatives" are so obsessed with their demented notion of personal liberty that they constantly complain about democratic governments encroaching on their supposedly unlimited freedom to deceive, exploit, maim, torture, infect with deadly pathogens, let starve in the street, otherwise injure or simply kill outright their fellow citizens for practically any reason (sometimes but not always in pursuit of some private gain), and without any apparent remorse or concern for the attendant consequences.
At the same time these self-styled defenders of freedom wish us to admire them for their staunch commitment to high-minded ideals like "liberty" and "family values". This dipshit view of "freedom", promoted not in the service of any actual public good, nor that of any individual possessor (as if these might somehow be incapable of constituting the same good), will result in the enslavement of the majority and the further debasement of public life, institutions, practices and standards if allowed to persist and flourish in democratic societies.
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