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[elfs]

I am 80% socially permissive and 71% economically conservative. I am a Libertarian. Well, duh. I was alarmed to find myself on the border with the GW Bush supporters, but I guess that just reflects my ambiguity about both statist, staticist, feralist candidates.

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Comments

[tonyawinter.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised to find that I come out as a democrat... I've thought of myself as a Libertarian.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I think it depends much on how you answer the questions. There were questions there that read "I don't like..." or "I am uncomfortable with...". For most of those, I answered them with a suffix like "and I want to deploy the force of law to make me comfortable." Libertarians are like that; even when we're not comfortable with something, we make a bright distinction between disliking it and insisting that the force of law be used to make us comfortable again.