If I may be so bold and try to answer for the right-wing fascists etc [insert stupid labels]...

Yes, we appreciate that you guys are here, 
- personally, because as you say you have overcome a LOT of intellectual baggage to arrive _here_;
- and instrumentally, because you can convey bitcoiny content to left-wingers that I never could since -- as I wrote in my  nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu review of  nostr:npub1dc84762hpnp0y4jcvjcgwt8l7sepng93j3hg63hfm80ph6kt82eqktjwqd's book -- they'd instantly suspect foul play and shut me down. (I am a fascist, after all.)

Yes, we _also_ understand that you're not the caricature of a left-wing nut or much of a Democrat.

...hence we arrive at PINO (Progressive in Name Only). What, alas, is left once you've shed all these progressive talking points?

All of it would seem to collapse into "libertarian with strong social ethos," or small-gov right-winger who wants people to be nice to LGBTers. That's fine. By that metric, _I_ am a bloody progressive. 

Trey -- would you give it your best shot to square this circle for me? Try to reconcile bitcoin/self-sov/unbank/stop money-printing and the big gov it allows with the many progressive aim and goals that seem to depend crucially on that.