Republicans are also always on about how the government is bad (even when they’re the incumbents) and how deregulating things make everything better. Libertarians are people who drank a full jug of that particular kool-aid. Also like republicans, they tend to only care about gun rights, though they will sometimes pretend to care about other rights to make it feel like an ideological thing.
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1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoAnd yet (at least from an outsider perspective) libertarians are closer to democrats than republicans
Republicans seem all about telling you what you can and can’t do (can’t get hrt, can’t get an abortion, can’t smoke weed, must marry and have children etc.) whereas both democrats and libertarians are largely “just live your life” but that could just be because all the american parties seem so financially right wing that they’re basically the same in that respect
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Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
To be fair, Libertardians also care about lowering the age of consent!
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anyone who promised to remove that regulation would get most libertarians and a good chunk of Repubs to vote for them.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
To be fair, Libertardians also care about lowering the age of consent!
Based on what are you making this claim?
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I’m an outsider too, but here’s my take on this
For the most part (certain exceptions exist, like guns), democrats seem to be about individual freedom from government, but they want government to regulate corporations.
Republicans are more about corporate freedom from government, but they want government to regulate people they don’t like (women, LGBT, immigrants).
Libertarians ideally want corporate AND personal freedom from government, but a lot of people only want personal freedom from government if it applies to “their kind”. So they’re really republicans.