Why is it that, so often, conservatives are just liberals by another name?

Rather than fight against the ever-expanding power of the state in order to uphold the action of individual actors, families, and communities "conservatives" clamor for new federal laws outlawing this and prohibiting that. When the Republican Party accepted the Religious Right and left libertarianism by the wayside, they accepted a group just as zealous to legislate, and destroy everything that makes conservatism wonderful, as the most extreme liberals.

Yup, and I am a monarchist. I will explain why a king would be much more libertarian than a Congress, and why monarchy may be the West's only hope.

But that will have to wait.

By the way, I use the word libertarian in a very narrow way, not in the social-libertarian-let's-destroy-the-foundations-of-civilization kind of way. I mean the community-is-prior-to-the-state kind of way.