Which reminds me of one last thing. Whether you believe it or not, my roots are in the libertarian movement. Ayn Rand was my first influence...can’t get more libertarian than that.
This sort of dissention of views has gone on since Adams and Jefferson. They had differing views on what we would indentify as Conservatism and Libertarian views. Their ideas and views are still prevalent to this day. But in all essence they are allies.
They generally make-up what we call the Republican Party.
C&L should debate rigorously, but I fail to see the worth of such semantic apraisals of idealogy above common sense. Purely judging an issue off an idealogy, is often not the best means of understanding the issue.
“Purely judging an issue off an idealogy, ‘
The word is ideology.
And as a libertarian, I believe I own myself, and anything I do that does not do violence to another is no business of the state. Your definition of libertarian is... what?