Here is a very brief, half-formed thought.
I find myself increasingly occupying what seems a severely underpopulated “libertarian center”. The right is populist-authoritarian (trumpism), the left is socialist-authoritarian (wokism). The center – the traditional liberal (in the lower-case, European sense of the word, dating to the 18th century) center of American politics seems to have been abandoned.
Author: JL Jones
I live in a rural part of a “red state” in the western USA. Most of my local friends, neighbors and coworkers are unabashedly Trumpist. At worst, they are openly racist, gun-hoarding xenophobes, and at best, they are anti-government, Randist “libertarian” or “prepper” types. Most of them are also weirdly quite kind and generous. I came to my current political position as a self-described libertarian. I am sympathetic to libertarian ideals, but the question I have is: if libertarianism is advocating maximum liberty, exactly what sort of liberty are we speaking of trying to maximize?
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