• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    They never were. Libertarianism is a more or less a fake ideology that is, in practice, just a thin veneer over garden-variety conservatism.

    People who actually care about being staunch defenders of individual liberties call themselves liberals because that’s what the word means.

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      8 months ago

      Depends on the “they” you’re talking about. Some conservatives like the name “libertarian” because it gives them air cover to like things like sex and drugs. Although, there are libertarians put their who border on anarchist, and basically want institutions out of most everything public and private.