I strongly agree with a lot of what you say, am undecided about aspects of the ‘opennness’ point, and must confess to rather carnivorous tastes. ‘Nanny state’ is interesting – I feel simultaneously in sympathy with your own take on this and also with those who are more libertarian. I picked ‘statism’ (which I suppose combines some aspects of nanny state and equality from your list) myself partly in reaction to reading the right wing libertarian Jonah Goldberg.
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