Then why are Tony Blair and (especially) Barack Obama sociopathic statist control freaks?!

Submitted by Dan Schwartz, Dec 31, 2018 at 19:56

"Liberals are those who believe in each person's unlimited capacity on his own to figure things out rationally, the heirs of Tony Blair and Barack Obama."

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2	Conservatives lose because they go too far right [847 words]	Prashant	Jan 11, 2019 22:10	247094
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