My political views aren’t adequately expressed by “libertarian”. I call myself a liberal-flavored libertarian, by which I mean that I want the government to hurt people less.
Gotta agree with you there. I describe myself as a center-libertarian based on my Political Compass scores, which put me halfway between the right-libertarians and the left-anarchists.
The possibility that the government is giving too much to poor people is low on my list of concerns. I also believe that harm-causing processes should be shut down before support systems
And that’s why, on the survey, I put “social democrat” on the coarse scale and “left-libertarian” on the fine scale. As far as I can tell, actual self-described social-democrats tend to be more libertarian on social and geopolitical issues than actual self-described liberals (which is to say, centrists).
Gotta agree with you there. I describe myself as a center-libertarian based on my Political Compass scores, which put me halfway between the right-libertarians and the left-anarchists.
And that’s why, on the survey, I put “social democrat” on the coarse scale and “left-libertarian” on the fine scale. As far as I can tell, actual self-described social-democrats tend to be more libertarian on social and geopolitical issues than actual self-described liberals (which is to say, centrists).