See 138.
FWIW, ansel12 is correct regarding the LP platform’s idiotic social and border views, but I vigorously disagree with his uniform typecasting of things identified by terms that begin with the letters: liber
I’m done with this subject for tonight.
Welcome to FR, lurker.
Read the Cato article and how all of the surveys define libertarianism and that Cato agrees with.
It is defined as I define it, and how we all know it really is, economically conservative and socially liberal.
****As David Boaz and I have noted in our two studies on the Libertarian Vote, and ebook with Emily Ekins, Gallup has tracked “libertarian” beliefs since 1993 using a combination of two questions on the role of government:”
“”Some people think the government should promote traditional values in our society. Others think the government should not favor any particular set of values. Which comes closer to your own view?””
****”Gallup defines libertarians as those who think government is doing “too many things” and should not “promote traditional values.”
****Using American National Election Studies (ANES) data, a stalwart in political science, we duplicated Gallup’s methodology, using two questions on the role of government:
“”Do you agree strongly, agree somewhat, neither agree nor disagree, disagree somewhat, or disagree strongly with this statement? We should be more tolerant of people who choose to live according to their own moral standards, even if they are very different from our own.””
**** we added similar questions to a national poll FreedomWorks commissioned in August to see what percentage of Republicans hold libertarian views today.
“”We define libertarians as those who favor “smaller government” and think government should not promote “traditional values.” Using this method, FreedomWorks data show that””