You know for years I've been calling myself a libertarian liberal. And I just looked it up. Liberal-libertarian doesn't mean at all what I think it does. A liberal-libertarian is a conservative. I am more of a moderate liberal who believes in anything involving consenting adults. Or I could just say I am a pragmatist.
And just to be clear why I thought I was a libertarian liberal. In the 90s I got the book Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz. He was really the first person to explain to me what being a libertarian meant. And he said some people are liberals and some are conservatives. But there is a further layer to being political. And he had chart. A square with liberalism on one end and conservativism on the other. But intersecting that, he had libertarianism and totalitarianism (or whatever he called it). Meaning some love freedom, some love less freedom. Some believe in liberal principles and some believe in conservative. And you could be anywhere on the chart he said. So carefully charting it I concluded I must be a libertarian liberal. And you know I haven't seen that book for a while, but I know that's what he said. And plus that might have just been his opinion of the subject you know.
I'd definitely say my politics is to the left and green. I believe in shared wealth and a green egalitarian society so I guess it puts me in an eco-socialist, eco-communist bracket. I'd say you are a left leaning liberal, or social liberal.
