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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't confirm. I consider myself Libertarian, I don't do drugs, and I have been voting more Democrat than Republican in the last few elections because the Republicans consistently go against my libertarian values. I had to change my affiliation to Republican to get a primary ballot (I'm in a red state, so I wanted to vote to try to limit the damage my neighbors might cause), and ended up voting Democrat in the general. Many of my Democrat friends do the same because the Democratic primary here is a joke.

There are a lot of "libertarians" that are just edgy Republicans, but I doubt they even bother changing their party affiliation. An easy litmus test is if they support Trump, they're not libertarian. That's where I draw the line, and it has been pretty effective for me.