I have come to the conclusion that all reasonable people lean libertarian. That's libertarian with a small L. Minimal laws to maintain a free society, but enforcing the necessary laws. Nobody seems to have a monopoly on this. The Texas GOP has a very libertarian platform. The Libertarian Party obviously has a very libertarian platform. In fact, our constitution as it was intended was as libertarian as a stable government can get.

The concepts of socialism, weapons control, speech control (including trying to force religion out of the public square) are all unreasonable and all inconsistent with the necessities of a free society. Freedom to rather than freedom from is the key here. In a free society, you are free to defend yourself. Free to help others. Free to speak your mind. However, in the grim world that the Left (not liberals; the Left may have co-opted the word, but they are far from liberal) envisions, they focus entirely on freedoms from.

This goes economically as well as morally. It is ironic that the leftist socialists who frequently declare "moral" requirements that we provide for people via the government, yet these are the same folks who decry morality on every other level. If these people were the moral giants they claim to be, they would not busy themselves attacking everyone's freedoms "to". Meanwhile, the libertarian view instead removes the burden from the whole as an obligation, and instead leaves them their resources such as money and goods, which they can then freely use them to use in the most moral way they can think of. I can think of a dozen government programs off the top of my head that I don't ever want to see a dime of my money, but several charitiable causes or needy individuals that recieve no tax money whatsoever to whom I would gladly give a dollar or more. So while the government takes money for socialist causes that provide people with freedom "from" various things that they probably ought not be free of (such as responsibility), they take away the freedom of responsible individuals "to" do good with what is rightfully theirs.

By the same token, the freedoms "to" provide a far greater benefit to society. When it is the responsible and capable who actually reap the benefits of their labors, be it tangible or intangible, people continue to try to do so. I have yet to see a freedom "from" that has imroved anything at all.

This was badly written, but feel free to question, discuss, or clarify it. It is a very rough outline. I hope to make a more conclusive version with any input or feedback I recieve.