Zarn
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« on: September 15, 2016, 08:21:52 AM » |
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If you use left and right to mean economic/financial positions, libertarians are further to the right than most conservatives, much further to the right than nationalists/nativists, and the margin is even greater with liberals.
If you use it as an overall indicator, then half (rough estimate) the libertarians are pro-life and some are socially conservative (just with a lot less top-down action). It would likely make libertarians lean right. Despite the whole War on Terror/ Enduring Freedom stuff, an aggressive foreign policy is not necessarily left or right. I think combined Libya demonstrates that it is not restricted to one or the other.
In terms of government and size, libertarians theorize that the less funding that government has, the less intrusive it can be in any aspect of life, whether that be financial, economic, social, domestic, or foreign. Democrats push for larger budgets. There is no 'starving the beast' that way. The most crucial issue to many libertarians is the Federal Reserve.
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