“If libertarians became conservative, then they wouldn’t be libertarians.”
I disagree. To be a libertarian, you have to belive in liberty. To believe in liberty means that every human has innate rights about his or her well being.
Abortion contradicts that. No one is asking the fetus, if she/he is ready to be killed. It is a one-sided decision by the mother
Same applies to Drugs. If you have taken drugs, you are no longer in control of your mind and thus cannot make any decisions about your liberty. You are now a slave.
Thus, taken intelectually, both of these stands are contradictory to the inherent “liberties” in “libertarians”
I would venture over half of America would vote libertarian, if they would change these two positions.
As far as I know the only difference between a conservative and a libertarian, or a liberal and a libertarian, is which portion of their agenda you are looking at.
Libertarians are conservative on economic issues, and liberal on social/cultural, immigration, and national defense.
If Libertarians move right on abortion and such, then they start losing the need to use their language of separation from conservatives, and they approach being conservative.
The happiest day of my life will be the day I go to vote in an election and the choices are between Republicans and Libertarians, and the demoKKKrat party is an ugly footnote in history books with the last of its leaders rotting in prison cells or in cages at the National Zoo on Connecticut Avenue with the bars welded shut and signs posted not to feed them through the bars.