| In what areas do conservatives and libertarians tend to agree? A lot of time is focused on disagreements between conservatives and libertarians but truthfully there have been many common views shared (at least before the advent of the neo-conservative). I thought it might be good to list many of the commonalities (for a change) to encourage conservatives and libertarians to hammer out some of the differences, as I believe when people really dig down, they'll find it's not very difficult at all to have a government under which both conservatives and libertarians can live together peacefully.
I see much of the conflict as simply arising from conservatives failing to see that many conservative social desires can be met via. private voluntary institutions/communities under a libertarian government. And libertarians tend to be overly critical and intolerant of some conservative social views but forget that many conservatives don't explicitly expect government to enforce their conservative values on others.
Anyway, I'll let someone else start the list and see how others view this.
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