1. Anyone who understands liberty needs to care about the bump stock ban because it's another arbitrary dictate that turns innocent people into "criminals" by fiat. Sich "laws" prove the illegitimacy of government by laying bare the authoritarianism behind their pretensions.

2. The drug epidemic is bad, but the black market in drugs is 100% a consequence of drug prohibition. See point 1. We need to end arbitrary prohibitions to seriously address these problems, not impose new restrictions on travel and trade.

3. Venezuela is a mess. Socialism is destructive. But it does not dollow that "we" (the US government) need to militarily intervene. Can you not see the absurdity in arguing that government monopolization and centralization of power is both destructive there, and beneficial here?

4. Tariffs. Lobbyists. Banking as an industry. Regulatory capture. Subsidies. Bailouts. Sweetheart contracts. The military-industrial complex. The prison-industrial complex. The medical industry. There's a start.

5. What are you even trying to say here? Politics is about power and wealth for the political class here first and foremost, and the US government doesn't represent or protect you or me. See point 4 above. It isn't foreign governments taxing and regulating us to death. Foreign trade isn't a threat to security. May I suggest Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt?

If you support criminalization of innocent people, prohibitions, restrictions on travel, restrictions on trade, military adventurism, economic central planning based on nationalism, and a strong central government in general, you might be inclined toward fascism yourself.