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Political and religious liberalism can not prosper if it is only a list of individual rights. Liberals must create a vision that includes responsibilities. It must also indicate that economic security can come from choices and freedom. We still have habits of the heart and need to be accountable to others and ourselves.

Fascism can come if we allow it and it fills the vacuum left by the Democratic Party and Moderate Republicans. Sunny fascism is incremental and sounds great. The best thing to do is stay positive. That democracy does work and that the internal and external enemies are to be minimized by democratic procedures.

Liberalism can not support the rights of offenders without indicating that government will do everything to protect individuals from crime. Non-offenders must take priority. There are times when we must go to war, but they may be a lot less often then what we have done in the past.

Families must be protected with an emphasis on the nuclear family. Gay rights must be honored and gays not punished for being gay, but straight families of which there are more voters must take precedent.

There are numerous red flag issues that conservatives win and of which the majority of Americans lose after they have voted. Most voters are not fundamentalist Christian, but that coalition is the most dominant at this time in history.