Talk:Seddie/@comment-14284535-20160607213142/@comment-3247345-20160610012208

Yeah, I'm aware that the Libertarians tend to agree with the Democrats on social issues. My point is that I suspect that economic philosophy trumps social views for most if push comes to shove. It's not that I don't think the Libertarians will attract any Democrats, I just suspect they'll do much better among Republicans, leaving the difficulty in denying both major parties a majority in the electoral college in place. In any case I think the Green Party would do better with Democrats once people decide to go third party, making it even more difficult for the Libertarians to attract them in similar numbers to Republicans.

A bit of a side note but I'm not a fan of the terms social conservative or social liberal. It really just describes correlations between economic and social political views that don't always hold. The left/right scale is about economic policy. Social views are on a totally different continuum. It's the authoritarian/libertarian scale. Yes the right in this country tends to be more authoritarian and the left more Libertarian, but it is possible to have different combinations, and the Libertarian Party is proof of that. Gun control is a particularity notable example of an outlier to the correlation between the right and authoritarianism, BTW.