[Urbane Guerrilla]

No, Sarge, you're probably headed towards some variety -- I'm told there are several, but most of them are off my personal radar -- of Right-Libertarian. Nothing whatever to do with fascism, a statist belief-system, regardless of Undertoad, who really should know better.

Hey, I'm Right-Libertarian myself.

There are three main streams of Libertarian philosophy: Right Libertarian (guns, gold, God, and let's repeal stuff and maybe leave the UN -- or export it, because that would do the job too -- no foreign entanglements), Left Libertarian (legal pot, and let's repeal stuff), and Anarcho-Libertarian (if the state is a necessary evil it is still an evil, and no good can possibly come of it; let's repeal LOTS of stuff).

The thing all three have in common is various degrees of reducing the problems within the governing State by reducing the State, period. Certainly less governing apparatus tends to reduce government expenditures on it, and offers less of a chance, let alone temptation, for political parties to vote the Treasury to themselves and their more supportive friends, which is the besetting sin of any democracy: trouble happens any time a bunch of guys figure out they might vote themselves the treasury.

The minimalist government -- not only is that government best which governs least, that government is best that needs to govern least -- that libertarianism prizes is the complete antithesis of the socialist philosophy, which runs to governing very much. This squeezes liberty and innovation down, and without these we cannot live a human life -- and do not gain anything worth having by trading these away.

So I vote against the Socialist Democrats a lot.