Nah, my libinlaw is nowhere close to a libertarian.
She’d have a full on socialist state with “the government” paying for all her needs, and doesn’t want the negative, authoritarian side that comes along with a government that gives you everything you want/need.
Basically a 70 yr old 12 yr old that wants the parents to provide for all her needs and require nothing of her in return.
You make a good point.
If you look at the labels on the axis; you’ll see that it’s really a “social authoritarian — social libertarian” scale. That’s a more narrow focus, than a scale measuring the extent that governments use coercive force on its citizens. It does leave out use of force to (say) redistribute property.
I was originally going to comment on the on-line tests, such as the one that Sopater mentioned above. That test also rates you on a “social authoritarian — social libertarian” scale.
You could construct many different models of the political realm — as I said before, none of them would be perfect. However, it’s likely that a 2D model is better than a 1D model.
Your libinlaw might just not want such an “in your face” display of what government coercive force looks like. Like an anti-hunting urbanite, who buys meat at the supermarket — she wants her socialism; but, she doesn’t want to know where it came from.