[Deb8]

Apologies if I'm not posting correctly. I've been a lurker for many years but am intimidated by the speed and volume of the posts. I consider myself a libertarian. I've read the books (my favorite was The Bell Curve by Murray and Hernstein) but I keep hearing people like Geraldo and Bill Maher call themselves Libertarians. An earlier poster sited Einstein re: simplicity. The simplest definition I can posit is that the Left (liberals and social democrats) believe that government solves problems (ie, leads to Utopia) and that the Right (conservatives and libertarians) believe that government creates problems...the law of unintendend consequences!