Libertarianism is the ideology that says “stop throwing people in jail because they smoked marijuana”.
Libertarianism as defined in the LW survey question says more than that. I agree we should stop throwing people in jail because they smoked marijuana but I still answered “socialism”. (IOW it doesn’t generically refer to the bottom half of the Political Compass plane but to the bottom right quadrant specifically.)
As I already said above, I also answered “socialism”. My point was that “the stupid political alliances of America needn’t be our concern”. My own politics of interest are such that I consider libertarianism is allied to progressivism in the issues that I’m most concerned about—Sophronius however seems so focused on the American political alliances, that, because by historical accident rightwingers in America are currently allied to libertarians, he sees this as evidence of rightwing bias.
Libertarianism as defined in the LW survey question says more than that. I agree we should stop throwing people in jail because they smoked marijuana but I still answered “socialism”. (IOW it doesn’t generically refer to the bottom half of the Political Compass plane but to the bottom right quadrant specifically.)
As I already said above, I also answered “socialism”. My point was that “the stupid political alliances of America needn’t be our concern”. My own politics of interest are such that I consider libertarianism is allied to progressivism in the issues that I’m most concerned about—Sophronius however seems so focused on the American political alliances, that, because by historical accident rightwingers in America are currently allied to libertarians, he sees this as evidence of rightwing bias.