You're making me hungry.
I consider myself a 'liberaltarian', left libertarian has a lot of specific conotations. My position is more like 'Freedom Democrat' in a state without any of those actually running or in office. Or maybe classic liberal: socially liberal, fiscally responsible. I would not cut social programs and would be willing to spend more in this area if it was on programs aimed at helping people get into a better situation and requiring them to prove their effectiveness in doing so. My hope is to shrink traditional programs naturally by reducing the need for them. I think corporations may have too much protection from liability. I think war should be a last resort, and only when it is clearly to protect our immediate interests.
Some of the things that originally attracted me to the Libertarian Party have changed, it's effectively become neutral on the issue of immigration for instance, and it was strongly pro-immigration when I first learned about it. There are a lot of members who really belong in the Constitution Party, at the risk of making a 'no true Libertarian' argument.
Internally, I think the LP suffers from having a lot of borderline-Aspergers types who tend to forget the importance of civil liberties in their focus on 'just-right' free market economic theories. I think Canada is a good example of a country which, if you place equal importance on civil liberties, is more libertarian than the USA, since it's adoption of effective spending control measures.
I consider myself a 'liberaltarian', left libertarian has a lot of specific conotations. My position is more like 'Freedom Democrat' in a state without any of those actually running or in office. Or maybe classic liberal: socially liberal, fiscally responsible. I would not cut social programs and would be willing to spend more in this area if it was on programs aimed at helping people get into a better situation and requiring them to prove their effectiveness in doing so. My hope is to shrink traditional programs naturally by reducing the need for them. I think corporations may have too much protection from liability. I think war should be a last resort, and only when it is clearly to protect our immediate interests.
Some of the things that originally attracted me to the Libertarian Party have changed, it's effectively become neutral on the issue of immigration for instance, and it was strongly pro-immigration when I first learned about it. There are a lot of members who really belong in the Constitution Party, at the risk of making a 'no true Libertarian' argument.
Internally, I think the LP suffers from having a lot of borderline-Aspergers types who tend to forget the importance of civil liberties in their focus on 'just-right' free market economic theories. I think Canada is a good example of a country which, if you place equal importance on civil liberties, is more libertarian than the USA, since it's adoption of effective spending control measures.
