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Conservatives, by and large, are NOT against Big Government. They are against Big Government that does not foster their ends. This is the distinction between modern conservatism and liberalism: both are statists simply with different ends.
For some years now, we have been told about a major division within American conservatism: fiscal conservatives vs. social conservatives.
This division is hurting conservatism and hurting America -- because the survival of American values depends on both fiscal and social conservatism. Furthermore, the division is logically and morally untenable. A conservative conserves all American values, not just economic ones.
By "social conservatism," I am referring to the second and third components of what I call the American Trinity -- liberty, "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum."
It is worth noting that a similar bifurcation does not exist on the left. One...
Exactly.
Libertarians have the only consistent opposition to Big Government, i.e government that threatens our economic and social well-being.