I cannot be the only American repeatedly forced to vote Democratic because the Republican social agenda is retrograde, if not lunatic—at the cost of unwillingly endorsing cumbersome high-tax solutions to this country’s problems. My comrades and I don’t all sit around reading Ayn Rand novels, either. In fact, the abundance of my natural political bedfellows don’t call themselves libertarian—though “socially liberal economic conservative” is a mouthful. We aren’t bigots, and we’re not evangelical. We are live-and-let-live about sexuality, accept human influence on climate change, and believe in
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