Ehh. Another "libertarian" discussion without any reference to the fact that prior to the mid-late 20th c. in America, and in most of the world even today, "lib

Ehh. Another "libertarian" discussion without any reference to the fact that prior to the mid-late 20th c. in America, and in most of the world even today, "libertarian" is a synonym for "anarchist". Unfortunately, it got mangled along the way. As always on political terminology, Orwell was most astute: "Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different." "It would seem that, as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, youth hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I don't know what else."