Right-wingers?
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For those that honestly still believe that all political philosophy rests on some horizontal dichotomy, I would be considered "right wing".
The problem most "liberals" have with my philosophy is that I just don't see government being the solution to all of our ills. I believe in self reliance, self responsibility, the Rights and Dignity of Man, and other cliches that many liberals roll their eyes at. I can't help it... these beliefs really are valid for anybody who honestly believes in the dignity of the individual, and not succumbing to the communal wasteheap of automatic humanism without honor that comes with brute Socialism.
Man is not the Tool of the State. And it's for this reason that I champion old-school liberals, classical liberals, like Locke, Smith, Paine, etc.
I do believe in the "general welfare". I just don't believe in the applied welfare of welfare nations. Government is never the answer, but somehow this has become the mantra of the left... Government is the religion of the 20th and 21st centuries. And we have little except in the way of Education to prove that it has any value.
So am I Libertarian? Yes, mostly. But I consider myself a Common Sense Libertarian.
I am pro globalism. Why? Because it's common sense. If you are anti globalist, then you MUST be protectionist... and this falls into the SAME effect as that of nationalism. Whereas, with Globalism, you secure long term standards of living with every nation you work with, even if in the short term corporations make money.
Also, against most Liberatarian ideals, I support socialized Education. I believe every kid in America deserves to know the rules of the game before he or she enters the game as an adult. That means our schools should be great learning centers, not dried up bastions of backwardness like they are today.
So, I am a Libertarian, yet I adopt very left and very right wing views on various things. I call that Common Sense Libertarianism. :)