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RFK Jr Rejected by Libertarians After They Loudly Booed, Heckled Trump
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Broad Strokes like this are never 100% accurate but to clarify why you're being downvoted:
In the USA pretty much all Libertarians are considered right wing. It's not a progressive ideology, just one that prefers lower taxation. In contrast, Liberals are often the middle left of the US spectrum before Social Democrats and the farthest left would be fringe groups of Communist Radicals including anti-police and anti-property activists. On the other end, from center to furthest right would be: Moderates, Centrists, Libertarians including a smaller group of Tea-Party anti-tax activists, Rightwing Anarchists (small but vocal), Evangelical Theocrats, and Segregationists (so conservative that they want to return to early 1800s).
You may notice this doesn't leave a place for many ideologies such as meritocrats or anarcho-communists. Just a side effect of our two party system is that the side you align with doesn't usually align with you as an individual. Sucks to suck, especially for those log cabin republicans.
I know why I'm being downvoted, and why the liberals think they're right, despite all evidence to the contrary and what words mean, thanks.
Words mean what people who use them think they mean, and Americans using the word Libertarian mean right-wing anti-government and pro-business folks. This may not have been the word's original meaning, but language changes.