Originally Posted by Bill8

I'm an independent, a techno-libertarian (a special type of libertarian, the term comes from the old cypherpunks list), who tends to vote democrat, because the republicans tend to be further away from libertarian principles than the democrats.

And because the republicans have lost touch with the realpolitik of oour age, the planetary scale of the problems facing us.

For example, the competition between more-managed economies and less-managed economies, resource depletion, population expansion, and planetary industrialization.

So, by the standards of that obsolete and mostly irrelevant model of right/left, I am more left than right. Even if it is a meaningless distinction of no more practical application these days than catholic and protestant.

Being more "left" than "right" doesn't prevent me from seeing the problem of the corruption of the professional dem pols.