Individual people can hold all sorts of contradictory ideas like this. Individual people can label themselves any which way. I’ve met plenty of folks who call themselves “libertarians” because they are pro-ACLU type stuff, and have never heard of libertarian-type-ism or the term “libertarian socialism”.
I’m not talking about these folks. I’m also not much talking about today’s lol-LP party. I’m talking about fools like D.Nolan and the Koch family and L.Ron Paul and where all the $$$ comes from to subsidize all those think tanks and “Austrian” Econ chairs.
I have a friend who sees my tweets complaining about the Koch funded Libertarians that have infected this country, aka the vast majority of those who self identify as Libertarian. He gets mad at me like I don’t know what I’m talking about. Like it or not, this is what Libertarian means in this country and it’s annoying to see LibSoc people like him get mad at me for using the common parlance instead of cleaning up their own house
A recent example of this is the term “fake news”. When this term first became popular it meant “false news”. Quickly however, the popular usage became “news produced by an enemy”. Some fool whining today when the evil toxic waste container calls a true news story “fake news” would be quite annoying indeed.
The Koch bros/etc won the propaganda war over the word “libertarian”. Time to move on.
What freaks me out is the ‘S’ sound in brainstorm that just flat disappears for green needle. Where did it go? Just shows how much our brain alters what we think is objective reality.