Originally Posted by SilverFalcon

I'm a libertarian too, but unfortunately not only did Libertarianism get poisoned by the left it also became a synonym for "Liberal". It is not a synonym for "Liberal" today. And you do get various leanings of Libertarian.

I am a right leaning libertarian and not a Liberal. I think this kind of libertarian now needs a new name. Because we are from the Conservative family tree but have evolved into a modern world view embracing liberty for all peoples and freedom of cultural expression, etc, plus flexible trade policies and political expression through the independent nation state, and because we are all worried about what "Democrat" is doing to political ideologies that basically embrace liberty and equality before the law, separation of church and state, etc, we need a new way of defining ourselves.

I would be an English nationalist (what they first called themselves) as this is what I have always been but then, this tends to include the libertarian ideal, but not, as it has become manifest today, the left leaning ideology of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is not a libertarian ideal, or rather, it is a distorted ideal in itself and has ceased to mean anything at all to anyone except those who keep trying to institute it and implement its ideology among a left wing coterie of classical liberals and new age universalists.

Increasingly, people are beginning to become as individual about the way they describe their political ideologies as they are about the way they see themselves. And this can, and has, led to a lack of enthusiasm for voting and genuine political evolution.