American politics are ridiculously small-c conservative across the board. Try and get the american left to buy in on any loosening up, if they catch even one t

American politics are ridiculously small-c conservative across the board. Try and get the american left to buy in on any loosening up, if they catch even one tiny whiff of something a libertarian might also believe in it'll be seen as enemy action and the position must be resisted. For example, I've heard it argued that the modern success of the LGBT movement can be traced back to Clinton getting a blowie and the dems deflecting from the perjury he committed by making it a public issue of sexual freedom/privacy. I'm not doing the argument justice here, but I tend to give it a bit of weight because the left is so comically bad at "sex positivity" that it's barely more than a new flavor of sex negativity with different boundaries.