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In reply to the discussion: Introducing the Libertarian Democrat. Are You One? [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Really though, even though these two memes seem oversimplified, they sure do seem to hold up to the test in my experience.
There does seem to be two major subgroups though. The first being "socially liberal-ish but fiscally conservative" types that can afford to be so. The second subgroup I'll delineate below.
Back when I was a "millenial" it had some appeal to me but that was only because I was too young and inexperienced to test it against real "life in the big city", as they say. I don't see a whole lot of my peers now going for it other than some ultra-partisan true-believers...and even they try to use the term as a way of selling themselves as some sort of thinking man's conservative. They're not socially liberal at all but more along the lines of "I got mine, and I did it on my own" types that think the "invisible hand" of "the free market" is lord and master.