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Your challenge was to show that progressives are not increasingly trying to control the lives and labors of people. You are free to show that the GOP is but it does not make for a good discussion if you just ignore whatever you want to ignore.

Is the GOP trying to control a woman who would kill a living human? Yes, I think that protecting a right to life is the role of government and would excuse the example from being statism.

I know of no bedroom encounters that the GOP wants to control. Tell us about a leader who is trying to do that.

You can also tell us about how the GOP is controlling religious expressions. The way I see it the shoe is almost always on the other foot.

Expanding marriage laws to restrict the behavior of even more people would most certainly be statist. The GOP is not trying to expand marriage laws. That would be the democrats who want to add restrictions on how gay people can call themselves married or not by requiring that gay people get a license.

You are probably right when it comes to education. Lets let teachers and schools and administrators and students be free to be themselves. Then both sides can stop being statist in the classroom.

The labor unions enjoy special privileges that are examples of statism. The GOP wants to undo those.