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ellis123 posted...

Libertarians are conservative. At least in the sense that they do not have anything in particular that moves them away from what would be defined as a standard view of "conservatism." Conservatism is largely a loosely connected set of goals that boil down into a couple of ideas; all of which are simply "power must coalesce." Conservatism started as a term for the faction that supported the tribal leader, and it molds to its era. The conservatives from the revolutionary war were the monarchists and because of that are utterly unrecognizable to the current crop of what would be called "conservatives" within that respect. They, however, have the exact same desire that the status quo most not be touched.

So in a generic sense you are correct in that Libertarians are very much in the same "up yours, got mine" mentality, but the idea is that there is no right-wing ideology that isn't in broad strokes some level of "conservative." This is why most people that aren't Libertarian/Republican say that they can't really distinguish between the two as they largely do everything the same way once it comes time for the chips to fall. Even in some things that ideologically *cannot* be reconciled, such as how if Libertarians were at all for no government controls they must be actively against abortion bans yet their party head explicitly stated that they were in support in them, they will entirely fall in line with the Republicans in every single stance.

Name a libertarian party politician that supports government intervention of abortion