Same with democrat, republican, progressive. I value a lot of the libertarian ideas about freedom of choice, sexual freedom, against interventionism, privacy, constitutional rights (including the 2nd A), however I'm also moderate on social programs and regulations and I'm all for social egalitarianism. I don't think there is a good "group" I fit in but I don't think I'm alone when it comes to techies. One thing that I think people miss is that government should have a lot of self auditing which doesn't happen; like we have a social program, clearly it's failing, so we axe it and try something different. That doesn't seem to happen on nearly the scale we need it to.