re: #147 laZardo
Smaller, more practical government has been a libertarian (emphasis on lowercase l) point, not necessarily a conservative one. I’m thinking of something leaning more to the European left in terms of social values, especially since many Democrats still lean ‘right’ in terms of these sort of things…
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Limited government is a conservative principle. Social values fall outside the scope of government except that they are reflected in the law. It is not the role of government to enforce what they think social values should be upon the populace. That leads to authoritarianism, which generally leads to worse.