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One needs to be very clear about US libertarian which is largely a conservative movement and libertarians in the rest of the world, who are largely considered left wing liberals and/or anarchists.

The Tea Partiers of the world hijacked the term and repurposed it for their own weird definition, I think it was that lot at any rate.

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The viewpoints expressed above are straight mainline US libertarian points. 90% of US libertarians would agree in whole or part with what I said.

I don't know of any left wing liberal libertarians anywhere in the world. The anarchist libertarians (called minarchists or anarcho capitalists typically) are probably more common in the US than outside of it. Some Tea Partiers actually are libertarians, many are not.

As with everything, some people swing more left others more right. Everyone is different. But the points I presented in the previous posts are mainline libertarian points agreed upon by virtually all of them (us).

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