DG,
Oh, it is for certain that clo desires a government that forces everyone else to conform to her leftist ideals, but don't be fooled, she also wants government to be a personal safety net for her and her family. Problem is, she is too ruled by emotion to even notice the large amount of personal freedom she surrenders (and the personal freedoms of others she wants surrendered, too!) in order to foist that type of government on the country. And, the truly sad thing about such foolishness is that, in truth, government cannot ultimately fulfill that role ... because such a Socialist government is always inept and doomed to failure ... history is replete with pertinent examples of just such failures.
B.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence