Wilted Rose
Wouldn't being socially liberal and fiscally conservative be almost border-line anarchy? You are ultimately supporting less state control in both business and social issues. Though, while Libertarians do profess smaller government they tend to draw the line on things that have a direct negative effect on other people, so it's not like assault and battery is going to be made legal to shrink government, or relieve corporations from the guilt of hiring hitmen.
But it could still all the same be a sort of middle-point to outright anarchy if you wanted to fuck around with it, imo.
Well, in the extreme... if somebody is socially liberal enough to believe the state shouldn't interfere in capital crimes like rape and murder, then yeh that person would be absolutely an anarchist (unless they hold that position but are also socially liberal, in which case they'd be a weird motherfucker). The most hardcore libertarians in America are usually those still chasing Jefferson's dream, where states handle crime and the federal government exists as a sort of defensive alliance between those states. But it seems the majority of libertarians are socially liberal in the mild way that liberals are socially liberal, where they believe the state shouldn't get involved in anything where there isn't a victim. And though modern libertarians sprang from unsatisfied conservatives and therefore don't always mesh with modern liberals on what "Victimless crime" means, in the broad strokes they tend to agree in that area.
The big difference between the two is suppose to be their economic policy. I'm a socialist, but I still see my philosophy as essentially libertarian in the sense that I think the entire point of the thing is to give the greatest amount of liberty and happiness to the largest amount of people, and capitalism to me now seems like an aristocratic system that sucks freedom and happiness from the general population and gives privileges to small numbers of oligarchs who's claim to those privileges is either they were born to them or they were good at screwing people over to get to their position. And I don't naturally hate federal power because I see federal power as a representative government the general population got to vote for, so if there is any issue with the federal government it's the fault of the people for voting stupidly, whereas capitalist oligarchy is the fault of the oligarchs for stealing and hoarding wealth.