The Social Liberal/Fiscal Conservative myth

Sorry my slow post is made redundant to what latergator posted.

 

Question is what the social means. I typically think of socially conservative as traditional values, religion, etc and not necessarily but more often than not the desire to integrate those values into laws. That doesn’t need a big government imprint. Just a bunch of laws and modest law enforcement and administrative state. So the opposite of that would be more libertarianism, government stay out of social affairs. That is somewhat different than social liberalism that thinks the government must actively fund equity to the extent of significant financial intervention.

 

Well yeah, the whole picture is. But libertarians, in many cases, would consider themselves socially liberal. They don't agree with government funded social change, but they support individual liberty to high degree.

I don't put a lot of stock in these labels honestly. But progressive would probably more specific than liberal for people who strongly support funding government programs to improve outcomes.

 

This is true. Libertarian types are highly visible on college campuses and on message boards, but much less numerous as a percentage of the electorate. And there is also a large number of people who strongly support values issues, but who are more or less indifferent to corporate tax rates or privatizing social security, even if they themselves don't like paying taxes.