You have a point, I guess I had never seen it that way.
That hasn't been my experience. On most conservative forums, most people--clearly conservative--describe themselves as "libertarian". Look at elected officials: who's more likely to describe themselves as a "libertarian", Republican politicians or Democratic politicians?
you're talking about self-description. i wasn't.
What? I don't follow. Why would conservatives, who describe themselves as "libertarians", call libertarians "dope-smoking lefty hippies"? I'm saying your account of how conservatives describe libertarians rings false.
Conservatives don't consider libertarians to be "them", they consider libertarians to be "us"--that is, they don't make a distinction between conservatives and libertarians.
Re:RIP Culture War Thread
by thebooktocome on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:11PM
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It wasn't too long ago that Paul Ryan was considered a libertarian, and a positive direction for the Republican party.
"libertarians are always classified as X" reliably identifies a person as opposite-of-X.
if you hit up the conservative forums, you'll find libertarians regularly described as dope-smoking lefty hippies, and whatever else.