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As a general rule, if you want to know what someone is really about, it’s always best to pay less attention to what they say, and more attention to what they do. This is especially true when it comes to politics.
If all you did was listen to what conservatives say they believe in, you might come away thinking they stood for smaller government, lower taxes, a balanced budget, and personal liberty, free from the constraints of the state.
But if you look at what they do, rather than what they say, you might notice something altogether different.
After all, despite their paeans to small government and personal liberty, these folks have little problem with expanding the role of the state in areas like surveillance, law enforcement, and intrusion into the reproductive choices available to women. They are fine with restricting liberty for LGBTQ folk, to whom they would deny marriage equality, as well as equal opportunity in the workplace, free from discrimination.
Likewise, they don’t mind higher taxes, so long as these fall mostly on the working class, as with sales taxes. Indeed some even call for a massive increase in sales taxes in the form of a national…
