Yes, badges can so oversimplify and mislead. From Wikipedia: Democrat: is a proponent of democracy Republican: An advocate of a republic, a form of governmen

Yes, badges can so oversimplify and mislead. From Wikipedia: Democrat: is a proponent of democracy Republican: An advocate of a republic, a form of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship Libertarianism: a set of related political philosophies that uphold liberty as the highest political end. All of them sound pretty great to me, to the point I could easily choose to be a republican libertarian democrat. Heck you could even probably be a republican libertarian democratic anarchist.