They don’t care what subjugates you, so long as you are subjugated

Spot on. Ayn Rand and Orwell said as much. The purpose of the state is to subjugate. The how doesn’t matter.

In fact, I can guarantee if Republicans had come out first in favor of gay marriage, the left would be drumming up a storm against it, either framing it as racism because it runs counter to the values of blacks / latinos / muslims, or framing it as decadence. Usually they try to ban things people enjoy, because happy people can’t be ruled. They make an exception for LGBT issues in the US, because it leads conservatives to shoot themselves in the foot in knee jerk reactions. Same with abortion. If conservatives were pro abortion, the left would be calling it racist, eugenicist etc.

The left has almost no real values other than power. That is all they really want. How they get that p

But if you want to know what the left really things of gays, look at how they treat countries like Iran which put gays to death. The left fawns over Iran showers them with billions of taxpayer money. And in some European countries, they already began to silently cancel pride parades, because Muslims were offended and threatened violence. Similarly, after the Orlando nightclub massacre, Dems were suspiciously silent when the perp turned out to be a radical Islamist. At best, they blamed guns.

Remember, guns are to blame whenever a shooter is one of theirs, and “white supremacy” or “hate” when it’s not.

The best way to beat the left is throw a wrench in their strategy and out-identity politics them. Of course in the long run they still only need to win big once to enact a final solution and be in power forever. Until the right develops an equal resole, tyranny’s long term victory remains assured. Again, they only need to win once. That’s why they don’t care how.

Which is one more reason to split up the nation. The smaller a group of people, the harder it is for one of their own to subjugate them.

Large nations really only offer protection against subjugation from the outside, but this is antiproportional to the danger of domestic subjugation.

As for the most freedoms of any nation in the world, that is actually not the US. Believe it or not, Russia was probably the most free nation in the world these days, at least it was up until the war. Freedom of speech is guaranteed, and while on paper not as absolute as in the US, in practice you had a lot more of it. Regulation is far less restrictive, as a business you can’t be sued into oblivion over not hiring enough women or people of particular religions, skin color or sexual orientation. Everyone is equal. No affirmative action, no blm, very little selective justice, very little censorship, no political persecution of dissidents like in the US, home schooling, exotic pet ownership, ease of getting a gun, access to alcohol, nightclub and entertainment laws, etc are all extremely liberal. Fines for speeding or other minor violations are symbolic at best, unlike the US where the government fines people to bankrupcy over nothing (like that black lady who was fined for talking too loud on the phone). There’s no “believe all women”, no horribly destructive family courts, no no fault divorces, etc.
They also don’t have cancel culture. Universities are centers of learning, not indoctrination. Compared to Russia, the US is an orwellian police state.

Other very free countries: Japan, Hungary, Serbia, Iceland, Switzerland, Chile. I would rank all of these as more free than the US.