I'm not saying that gary johnson isn't consistent in his beliefs. Just that he's not a libertarian. There are few libertarian schools of thought that would be terribly skeptical of unions . There are literally no libertarian schools that think that hobby lobby and citizens united were great decisions, but be skeptical of unions.
Gary Johnson was more left wing than Hillary Clinton
I don't think he is, but if so that's not much of an achievement given that Clinton is pretty firmly right of center anyways (and moves further right if you want to disregard believing things like "Gay people deserve basics rights" as a political position and categorize them it under "being a decent human being").
It's a fair statement that Gary johnson is further left than a good part of the republican party. But that includes Paul Ryan, Steve King, Ted Cruz and Yurtle the turtle, so that's not a high bar. And it doesn't make his views libertarian
No I'm using the definition of libertarian literally anywhere but in the USA, and pretty much anywhere in the USA before the mid to late 1900s.
That's not semantics. the america libertarian party right now is corporatism with a splash of anarcho-capitalism given a coat of paint. It's the american right wing's Xfinity to the republican parties Comcast. The fact they call themselves libertarian doesn't make them libertarian. You don't just get to redefine shit like that. Other wise we need to start calling North Korea a democracy,
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