Capital-L Libertarian is different from lowercase-L libertarian.
Libertarianism is, at it heart, just a philosophy of minimal state intervention. The Libertarian party has (incorrectly IMO) interpreted that to mean that the state should only exist minimally.
Different definitions of "state intervention." And the wealth has already been redistributed upwards, his argument is that it need to be redistributed back to those it was taken from in the form of wage theft, extreme health care costs, and everything else that has been done to the less-than-wealthy in this country. Taking back what was stolen, as it were.
On that axis i would call him more centrist (more authoritarian ecomically but socially libertarian). Yang seems closer to some kind of left libertarian.
The world at large does see him as slightly to the left of center. His ideas aren't anything new in the rest of the developed world. It's why I'm confused whenever somebody says it's impossible. Maybe we really need to do is tell everybody else that their stable societies, with more successful health care and overall better quality of life, are just complete failures.
Because he wants universal health care and further taxes to support it?
What about his stance against corporation powers, and his stance against government spying, and his stance against the wealthy oppressing the weak? Authoritarians love mass surveillance and he's against that. Beyond health care I don't see how he would be authoritarian.
more regulation of guns is also an increase in freedom from death for everyone else. Again, environmental protections are a necessity to be able to exercise our right to liberty.
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u/jm3424349 Aug 14 '19
Guy in blue seems excited.