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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 13 June 2014 01:49:25PM 4 points [-]

Once there was a confusion about what "liberal" really means, so some people decided to call themselves libertarians instead. Now there is a confusion about what "libertarian" really means.

Seems to me we have some kind of ideology-name treadmill here, which works like this:

  • start a political movement
  • become popular
  • many people will use the name of your movement, even if they disagree with a few (or later: many) points
  • at some moment those people will complain that you want the definition to include you, when you are obviously merely a fringe member of this movement