There's no such thing as Classical Liberalism or moderation in politics.

These are costumes.

What matters most is how your choices and beliefs shape civilizational behavior in the limit of the cycle, and not how they impact the present.
You're either a conservative who believes that the family is the atom of society, or you're a liberal who believes the individual is the atom of society—in which case you're either explicitly a progressive, or dead weight: fuel for progressivism.
In liberal democracy, the only moral imperative is that which expands the adjacent possible of personal choice.
When you support liberalism, or do not you stand for traditional conservativism, you are necessarily abetting a process which maximizes the number and type of possible raw individual experiences over time.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that if you value universal liberal choice over local family sovereignty, that you support the normalization of paedophilia.

Sometime in the distant future, a young child is being raped because of you.
Western liberal democracies should expect:

* Normalization of polygamy and polyamory
* Decriminalization of paedophilia and pederasty, and their normalization
* Gender neutrality as a default, wherein children choose their gender before puberty
* Elimination of age of consent
You can't have some individual rights without all of them being granted eventually.

The U.S. Framers were wrong about the Constitution.

They thought all people were naturally God-fearing.

They thought Christianity was the rational pinnacle of human intellectual achievement.
They believed in equilibrium of Enlightenment Providence, and did not forsee the emergence of new Gods.

In their quest for freedom FROM old world religions, and freedom FROM the tyranny of taxation, what they gained for their descendants was salvation FROM morality.
John Adams, second President of the United States once said, "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to ingest estrogen, eat soy, and get fucked by lonely old men."
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