You have to give libertarians credit for one thing: they are consistent.
Liberals want government involvement in economics (Health care! Welfare! Regulations!) but not in individual personal choices (Gay marriage! Legal abortion! No promotion of religion!).
Conservatives want government involvement in individual personal choices (Prohibit gay marriage! No abortion! Our religion in the laws!) but not in economics (No health care! No welfare! No regulations!).
And, of course, both are completely hypocritical even in that. Liberals want to regulate all sorts of personal choices (No smoking! No unhealthy foods! No assault rifles!) and conservatives want involvement in economics (Tax breaks for corporations! Subsidies to oil companies! Government vouchers to help private schools!).
Libertarians are consistent. No government!
There aren’t a lot of true libertarians, though. After all, libertarianism is practically anarchy. Most people who call themselves libertarians aren’t really.
Take someone like Rand Paul, who says big government is bad, except when it is telling women that they can’t have abortions or gays they can’t get married — or when they give our tax money to corporations.
Not that you should ever believe anything this guy says, but especially pay no attention to him when he says he is a libertarian, because he isn’t.
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Ever eavesdrop on a libertarian meeting? Getting them to agree on much of anything is like proverbially herding cats. Rand Paul actually does believe that life starts at conception, so it isn’t that he’s not “really libertarian”, it’s that he’s a superstitious nutball. However, his response to marriage equality was to get the government out of marriage altogether, which only means he hasn’t spent enough time reading the tax code or military family law.
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Liberal, but I mostly believe people should be allowed to do what they want as long as no one gets hurt. So smoke, just not around me. Own a gun, just don’t bring it around me. As for unhealthy foods, I will eat all the bacon I want, but if you don’t want to, that’s great. More bacon for me! 😉
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