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It feels like you are being willfully naive of the real world and languages' etymology in practice, and hiding within academia, whether on purpose or not.
Are you sure it's me being willfully naive of the real world? The real world seems to be ipretty fucking clear on this one and has been for a very long time.
Its not academia. It's just a couple wiggles of your fingers I'm lazy, so here's just the first three to get you started...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
https://www.libertarianism.org/what-is-a-libertarian
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/
So, as you can see, your etymology at work—not that the morphemes could ever be confusing on such a term. If your view is otherwise, well that's my example of the power of disinformation and misinformation. Literally deceived into believing something that is incorrect by listening to incorrect people. Be careful of it.