LOL, yep the righties who despise muslims and are all racist towards brown people are the ones supporting ISIS, lol.
The difference is that you cant find a single conservative who ever supported or condoned ISIS, most would be heavily prejudiced against muslims, but many prominent figures on the left praised Venezuela before it turned into an epic cluster fuck.
Ideology is not same as religion, there are Muslim Cons just like there are Christian and Hindu Cons. Muslim conservatives (Sunnis) and Muslim liberals (Shia, relatively liberal) kill each other in large numbers over differences of ideology and tradition. White conservatives are not just racist towards brown people, they dislike non-whites of any color and even whites who don't bow to their dogma. It's all an issue of intellect and lack of it. Lower the processing power of the intellect, higher is the fear factor which leads to animalistic responses.
Very good we got here pretty quick .... And this is the source of the conflict that is "unresolvable". Progressives think they have the right to remove citizen's rights for social and economic optimums.
I don't think less government and less regs means compromising dodgy drug companies selling dangerous drugs to the public
Yes, Americans have made a fairly regular habit of electing idiots to that position; in particular, several recent Republican presidents lacked the skills, intelligence, and ethics to properly do the job. But if you somehow feel proud of this crew, you are welcome to it. You know what most Canadians say over and over again these days. Thank god we aren't American and ruled by Trump. Thank god we have affordable, universal health care and quality public schools, and we aren't in a constant state of social unrest along political and ethnic lines. Thank god we don't have many fellow citizens carrying a lethal weapon in public just to live their normal day.
But were talking economic theories, progressivism is a political concept, not an economic one. As for progressive choosing a type of economic policy, I would say they choose based on what works. Adam Smith himself said that the rich have to pay more than they take in primarily because they are the biggest beneficiaries of a stable society. An unequal society creates a scenario where the rich have more to lose than those below them - the rich are simply paying for the privilege. This is why I asked you for examples of libertarianism in practice - there aren't any examples because it's unworkable. Libertarians have to dream about cruise ships but even there the principles won't work.