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Without any government, as per the thinking of Thomas Hobbes, nothing is possible due to the war of all against all. In the sense of "small govt vs large govt," it seems that liberals generally favor more government than conservatives do.
I see the framing that way, but I don't think it's describing real preference differences in a useful way. If conservatives were pro-BLM, anti-IP, anti-drug, for less-restrictive immigration policy, etc., they could plausibly be described as supporting "small gov't" on principle, and it would make sense (though there would still be issues, IMO). But given that they're on the "big gov't" side of all of those issues, it sounds like opposition to opportunity-enhancing policy and consumer/worker/environmental protection is just euphemistically described as "small gov't" principles because it polls better.
What appears to be the consensus among these people is that businesses should answer to the government to a large extent to the end that the government should be able to tell those businesses what to do, holding them to some sort of "moral" standard based on the "collective good." This stems from a fear that these businesses will do something to harm these posters, and these posters should be able to push back via governmental control and voting. You don't really see conservatives make these same claims about businesses, so this is pretty unique to liberalism in this regard.
See above.
In that same capacity, I see a lot less conservatives push back against police and military leadership. But you also see more conservative posters make claims about willing to engage police in armed conflict if the police were an agent of the government to do things like confiscate personal weapons, so this is where things become more complicated.
Well, what we see is conservatives express devotion to real-world authority and willingness to rebel against hypothetical and impossible authority.
You simply don't hear this willingness to embrace what is effectively violent revolution from liberals, so I don't think "abuse of authority" and "lack of authority" is an appropriate breakdown. There is something else there. Maybe it's about collectivism versus individualism to some extent?
Again, I disagree. Corporations are collectives. I really think the authority vs. anarchy fears are the best descriptor.