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Right.Just like far left is a catchy term thrown around by non-thinking righties.
Economic libertarians do try to hook onto the right to legitimize their miserable existences.
The far right can be equally statist and totalitarian.
Progressivism for instance is a reform impulse far more than an ideology. We have conservative statist Progressives, like Santorum, who would use the weight of government to suppress women's rights or to enforce rigidly a right to religious expression in the public forum that the Founders would never have embraced themselves.
You paint yourself as you attempt to paint the so-called "far left."
I know there are statists on the right and didn't argue that there aren't so I don't get how you came to your conclusion I painted myself into any corner. I'm simply saying either limited small government libertarianism is far right or big government social conservatism is far right. They cannot both be far right. They're not the same and have nothing in common. Get what I'm saying?
This is why I have issues with the term "conservative". I am socially liberal (libertarian ideals), and fiscally conservative (which also is an embrace of libertarian ideals). Yet, in the USA, I am classified as a conservative.
Conservative is a joke word in the USA.
Liberal is as well.
Both groups have serious authoritarians among their members.