Re: [luv-talk] Infringing liberty

Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:

I tend to think in operational terms, and the USA Libertarian Party seems to have only erratic and inconsistent adherence to any specific theoretical framework for 'libertarianism'. The latter term is so ill defined in USA political discourse [...]

[...] 'libertarian' (in USA discourse) is just a political football and means any of a variety of rather different things depending on the speaker.

Cf. The word "Fascism" has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable'. -- George Orwell in "Politics and the English Language" Productive intercourse is impossible with people using such terms.