Glenn Greenwald - Progressive or Liberaltarian?

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39. Libertarianism is ultimately NOT consistent with liberal values. It just isn't.

Libertarianism is against government regulation of anything at all.

That it happens to oppose government regulations on some things that liberals would like to see less regulated, does NOT make it a liberal viewpoint.

For example, remove all regulations from food production, use of the environment, labor laws, advertising laws; and get back to me in a few years on how that's working out for liberal (or 'progressive' if you prefer) values.

Sure when it comes to what goes on in my personal home, that involves me as an individual and causes no harm to anyone else, you could call me a 'libertarian' - but it would be screamingly inaccurate because that little bit of libertarianism is about 1/10 of what the world is about. So I would say that anyone who thinks they are a 'left' libertarian needs to get out more. They need to think more broadly about the real basis of libertarianism and how that would affect the world.

Or in other words, if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.