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by liquidise 3745 days ago
Conservatives believe in fiscal freedom and social control. Liberals, inversely, are for fiscal control and social freedom. Both, in theory, could argue they are for "smaller government".

Libertarianism wants both fiscal and social freedom. Small government compared to the "left" and "right", big government compared to the AnCap folks.

It is all perspective.

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Liberals aren't really for social freedom. They're for a different flavor of social control.
Ergo the saying "Libertarians are left of Left AND right of Right". It's so very true...
Stupid reductionist logic from a stupid libertarian business card.
thanks, everybody, for downvoting this.