Those are great but the left in its current form pushes for larger and larger government. I believe that large government is incompatible with freedom. A hammer

Those are great but the left in its current form pushes for larger and larger government. I believe that large government is incompatible with freedom. A hammer will always find a nail given enough time for bad actors to exploit the search space. Marxism prescribes the atrophy of the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state The left as it stands in its current dominant form, is a hypocrisy of incompatibles. True liberalism as you describe it, doesn't exist in any first world country. It's been bundled into larger and larger government creep which inevitably tramples on individual rights.