Social Libertarianism

Social Libertarianism, clipped to SocBert, is a lib-unity ideology that leans culturally left. He advocates for a robust decentralized government, free markets, and social welfare. SocBert believes that both negative liberty (ie freedom to do stuff) and positive liberty (ie freedom from forces (such as poverty, bad health, pollution)) are equally important and therefore libertarian ideology should be reformed to view liberty & justice as being free from all forms of domination instead of only freedom from the state. SocBert tends to agree with American Libertarians on 90-ish% of issues except when it comes to market failures (like externalities and monopolies) and welfare.

Personality
The SocBert ball is a very altruistic, happy, energetic, and pro-freedom ball. Although he likes a lot of people, not that many people like him back. He's too much of a "socialist" for libertarians, so he's called a "fake libertarian". On the other hand, called a "Libertarian Trojan Horse" by socialists. Usually, he hangs out with his mom Social Democracy and his half-sister Social Georgism every other weekend.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a circle
 * 2) Fill it with yellow
 * 3) Draw a rose ( It can be hard If you can't pull it off using a simpler design)
 * 4) Draw eyes, and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File: Libertarian.png]] Libertarianism - Free Markets, small government, and guns are based. Complete government non-involvement? Agree to disagree.


 * [[File: Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - Like the social programs and the intention behind them, but not the bureaucracy and centralized government.
 * [[File: Nordmodel.png]] Nordic Model and [[File: Soclib.png]] Social Liberalism - A little more moderate version of myself.
 * [[File: Socgeo.png]] Social Georgism - We have a lot in common other than minor disagreements on taxation and policy priority.
 * Tecnho Liberalism - More localized version of me

Frenemies

 * [[File: Awaj.png]] Anarchism and her offspring - I admire your love of freedom, but you can't give people a nice social net without a government.
 * [[File: Libsoc.png]] Libertarian Socialism - Wish people would stop confusing us, that being said you're one of the least bad socialists after [[File: Libms.png]] Libertarian Market Socialism

Enemies

 * [[File: Soc.png]] Socialism - Because of you I get called socialist all the time.
 * [[File:Ancapf.png]] Anarcho-Capitalism - Negative liberty without positive liberty is tyranny by another name.
 * [[FIle: Nazbol.png]] National Bolshevism - Not that gang!!!!

Wikipedia

 * Left-libertarianism (Social Libertarianism)

Literature

 * The War on Normal People - Audiobook
 * Progress and Poverty by Henry George
 * Social Problems by Henry George

Online Communities

 * Social Libertarianism Discord
 * r/sociallibertarianism