Nice little graphic libertarians centered around themselves there. They left out the constitution.
The “authortian right” you refer to is fascism - socialism with Federal power over business. It is left like Marxism is left. You know what Marxism is. Both are authoritarian and limit private property.
On the other side you have constitutional liberals, aka, “classical” liberals and constitutional conservatives.
Libertarians are all over the place - from communist/anarchists to fascists to classical liberals to conservative constitutionalists. Many supported comrade Obama. Many support globalism which anything but constitutional.
Greetings SaraJohnson:
Great point. But this isn’t a “big L” libertarian issue simply because a handfull of Progressives have sized and redefined the “libertarian” word. Progressives also siezed and redefined the classical “liberal” and “gay” words for modern language use in its antonym form too.
Substitute the word “constitutionalist” for “libertarian” upon the graphic if you choose. The entire point of the post being the band of unjust Fabian Socialists dishonoring the constitutional conservative limitations of government power, because “only they know” what’s best for us. Meanwhile, us as sovereign individuals in our republic government are reduced to subjects.
Getting back to the chart. One can hardly argue that GH Bush, GW Bush, and wannabes R Dole, J McCain, or now W Romney are limited government conservatives. In fact, one can argue that every GOP President candidate since Reagan is big government progressive. Unfortunately, when contrasted against statists like Clinton, Gore, Kerry and Obama, the GOP are “relatively” conservative and liberty oriented.
Cheers,
OLA