[headsplice]

-1)Socialists are quite different than Leninists/Stalinists.
-2)The metrics of 'freedom' are not whether we can post statements on the internet and how many guns we can buy. There's also things like the expanding power of the executive, specifically the use of signing statements and the expansion of the President's Article II powers.
-3)As a libertartian, do you support the largest expansion of the federal government in the history of the United States (hint: the DHS)?
-4)Democratic societies do NOT lend themselves to long-term stabilities. That's why the US, when it was founded, was known as the 'Great Experiment.'
-5)I challenge you to name one way in which the United States is better, domestically or internationally, as a direct result of the policies of George W. Bush.