Comments by "BaltimoreAndOhioRR" (@BaltimoreAndOhioRR) on "GOP Senator mocks "Nancy Pelosi's greatest hits" in COVID-19 relief bill" video.
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@CarbageMan nope. Liberal does not refer to libertarians. Liberal refers to the word liberate. As in, liberate from the standards, morals, customs, traditions, norms, practices, and values that this country was founded upon. The opposite of a liberal, a conservative, gets that name by wanting to conserve all those things I just mentioned.
Libertarians get their name from the word liberty, and basically want as much liberty apart from govt restraints as possible.
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@CarbageMan You need to read a book. Are you in Europe? If so, keep your European definitions out of American politics. You are totally wrong about liberals and libertarians being the same . Libertarians are sort of a mix of conservative and liberal ideas. Like conservatives, they want the least amount of government control as possible (actually, in most cases even less so than conservatives want), but like liberals (unlike conservatives), they want to liberate themselves from all the societal restraints that this country has ingrained into it. Such as drug use, anti-patriotism, anti-religion, anti-marriage - basically anti- every institution that was steadfastly accepted in this country until about the 60's.
So in easy terms, libertarians are liberals in every aspect EXCEPT their views on government, and that's a huge point.
Liberals advocate and fight for more government control and ever-growing government at every level, every chance they get.
In this country in modern times, most libertarians are just conservatives who want legal drugs.
I don't know or care how it is in Europe, but that's how it is here. And here is what we're talking about.
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