It occurred to me that my separation of the Left in Cultural Sybarites and Cultural Sadeists could be summed up as “good people who are ignorant”, and “bad people who lie.”
I will reiterate that I call myself a Liberal, because I want the most freedom possible consistent with not allowing other people to curtail my freedom, for example through crime. I believe governments are necessary at this stage in our cultural evolution, but hope that at some future point we can evolve past their necessity. As Madison said, if all men are angels, we need no government.
The word Libertarian is unnecessary. It is redundant. True Liberals granted a major propaganda victory to the fascists when they allowed them to start using a word which described the opposite of their intent.