RR, you're just a conservative playing coy, trying to appear libertarianish, because you lack the courage to say you've picked a side.
Someone who is truly apart from our political reality would have just as many criticisms of the codswallop that the right issues, and yet you have focused all of your fire and pointedly picked on people you've labelled "progressives" here. You hint occasionally that cons are also part of the problem in America that keeps individuals from true "liberty", yet you won't say what that is, nor call out anyone who expresses support for Trump, the GOP, or conservatism. So it is just a masquerade...you're a true con to the core who is too afraid to say so...
The reality is that like Rand Paul, who claims to be a Libertarian, and yet votes and speaks like a con, people like you are mostly irrelevant and powerless in the USA. In order to gain some sense of belonging and influence, people like Paul are forced to choose sides, and he usually sides with the cons. There are several like you here, who say they are not cons, claim they are libertarians, don't register as GOP, but embrace the con perspectives, are anti -left, and usually vote with the GOP. Unlike you, however, they are likable and often able to laugh at themselves as well as at the progressives.
The reality is that we've become a society with a history of two political parties, each at times embracing conservatism and liberalism/progressivism, and occasionally switching. But those are the real distinctive polars. I'm not sure if there are enough people who are fed up with those two choices to move the political discourse beyond left and right. I am certain that they would not come to any sort of consensus if the numbers reach a tipping point, because of the nature of individualism. You're just railing against the wind...
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