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    This is an archaic breakdown of differences. Most of the Conservatives that I know are rabid individualists, looking at society as the unfortunate necessity that it is, rather than some gold standard that must be maintained and protected. I realize that traditional conservatives were all about preserving and expanding what they believed was 1950s white Christian society through law, but do you know many of those anymore? Politically, I seek only to enhance the rights of the individual. As Thatcher said, "there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, there are families". Aren't most of us "liberals" by a 19th century standard?

    We should pass laws that protect the rights of individuals, uproot the laws that don't. Society is determined on an individual basis. Mine is different from yours and vice versa. Although they may overlap, we are not one society and the individual is not beholden to anyone.
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