Rightwingers say "Liberalism is a disease" because the desire to be free is just a mental illness.

If that's the case why did the right create the income tax in 1918? Why did the right start the NSA, and draft and push the Patriot Act Through congress and pass it? Why does the right maintain the control of the police while the left says defund them? Why does the right believe in a huge controlling government, huge support for the violence class and huge support for prisons and the justice department. Why does the right believe in provoking terrorism so they can force us to be controlled by the TSA at airports while leaving and then controlled by CPB while returning? If the right isn't into control why do they believe in not just strong borders but closed borders when they are nothing but fake socio-political constructs?
Central planners: Really? Why did the right force us to accept centralized electricity production under Edison's plan so that we are constantly paying the man while Tesla wanted everyone to be able to make their own electricity.
Why did the right like Nixon conspire with Edgar Kaiser to destroy our health care system by centralizing it into HMOs and Hospitals and conspire to give us the least care for the most cost?
Why does the right hate anyone who wants to live off grid.
Why does the right disbelieve in FREE LAND? In other countries like the UK, Finland, France or just about any other places in the world there is land NO ONE OWNs where you can just stop your car or your van and camp and sleep there.
Yet in America, as far as the eye can see every section of land is OWNED and goes barren and unused. Every highway you travel on some you pass by miles and miles of land that is left fallow that some huge factory farm owns. The only land that is free and unowned is BLM ( Bureau of Land Management) land and the right cannot STAND that either. You can go park your camper or van on it but only for 2 weeks before the police come along and force you to move it. There is NO free land in the USA thanks to the right.

Pete314 You are PRECISELY an example of what I mean. You hate the idea of leftwingers stopping anything that could control us but you chuckle that they won't able to. You prove my point. Thank you.

Which proves I'm not trolling and proves I am trying to get you to think for your SELF.

That's exactly what the controlling right wants you to think. But there is definitely people that believe in Freedom, the left, and definitely people that believe on control and order, the right.

"The new breed of Republicans are both socially conservative and socially liberal "
They aren't socially liberal at all. They don't believe in people's right to do what the damn well please with their bodies. They don't believe in helping people when they are down. They don't believe in safety nets and don't believe that our taxes should be returned to us in forms of helping us. They only believe taxes should be used to control and to kill us.

"The thread that binds us is we hold personal freedoms dear,"
What total Horsemanure. The right hates freedom. They go around nationalistically waving flags and then turn around and support police killing people.

" they tend to be bootlickers to an authoritarian government and believes it and obeys it,"
Another thing about the right is they are bald faces liars and speak the opposite of the truth. The right are bootlickers of authoritarian government. They are sycophants to the rich. Fawning parasites of those that control us. They constantly ask "Why didn't george floyd comply with police?" yet turn around and howl about their "right" to infect other people around them. They don't believe in the freedom for people to be able to live in a world that won't give them a deadly disease any more than they believe in the freedom of people to walk down the street without the threat of being shot.

So why does the modern right not believe in every American's right to vote and have their vote counted?

Why does the modern right want to force everyone not to speak any other language than English?

Why does the modern right want to stop people from coming and going as they please?

Why does the modern right even ban teaching of other cultures around the world?

How the hell does the modern left NOT WANT TO BE FREE?! Even the word LIBERAL means One that befits a free man?! The left believes in live and let live. The right believes in "carpet bomb them all into McDonalds Parking Lots!"

"They want to be told exactly how to think and how to behave,"
No they don't. They want others to stop telling them how to think and behave and to BE. The right can't STAND people that want to think they are a different gender than they want to be. The right can't stand people that were born of another race than white. The right can't stand people that want to be of another religion than Christian. The right can't stand people that have other ethnicities. Even in Arizona the right has tried to ban the speaking of other languages other than English especially in educational institutions?! Yet we aren't ENGLISH so why are we forced to speak ENGLISH?!

Thanks to Right Wingers Desire to control even how we SPEAK
Arizona is the only state with an English-only education law.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/11/17/arizona-only-state-english-only-law-we-repeal-it/2564675001/

Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban In Public Schools Goes To Trial
https://www.npr.org/2017/07/14/537291234/arizonas-ethnic-studies-ban-in-public-schools-goes-to-trial

Despite the fact that the Hmong supported the Americans in the Vietnam War a rightist Walmart shopper tells family speaking Hmong to speak English.
https://shareably.net/speak-the-language-rant-walmart/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCTXvZ8Ng-s

Diné worker fired for speaking Navajo
https://www.navajotimes.com/news/2012/0512/051012fir.php

Armed Trump supporters protesting immigration demanded to know if a Native American legislator is in the United States "legally." TRUE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-supporters-navajo-legislator-legal/

Schools are supposed to be places of LEARNING! So why in the hell can't other languages and cultures of the world be taught there?!!!

For More Than 100 Years, the Rightists in the U.S. Forced Navajo Students Into Western Schools. The Damage Is Still Felt Today
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decades-us-government-forcibly-placed-native-students-western-schools-effects-felt-today-180959502/

Rightist Karen tells NATIVE AMERICAN to "go back where you came from"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUHoDBcKlA8

There are dozens and dozens of these instances of Right wingers telling us how to speak, how to think and how to be.

"and they want to silence anyone who dares to dissent. "
Are you friggin kidding me?! The police are out there with tear gas, truncheons, riot gear and rubber bullets stopping ANYONE who dissents against the illegal wars (antiwar protestors), the stranglehold that Wallstreet has on our society (Occupy Wallstreet) and dissenters (Black lives matter) of police brutalizing and killing Americans and the right roots them on!
You say "they want to silence" yet you SEE the right FORCEFULLY Silencing people. Learn the difference between "wanting" and actual DOING.