Are you left or right wing?

[Kantor]

Mr Khan said:

Kantor said:
The two terms can have so many different meanings, it's impossible to really tell.

But going by the common definition of left being large government and right being small government, I'm right-wing.

Really isn't, though. The "Right" wing in most OECD countries is more like "small government on fiscal matters (except defense), big government on social matters (except guns)."

As such, left and right are really about promoting different ways of life more than specific policy matters: a social-democratic society where excesses of wealth are used to insure equal access to certain goods and people are free to pursue non-hateful beliefs and live any non-exploitative lifestyle they desire, vs: a corporate-capitalist society where excesses of wealth are used to generate more wealth and overall prosperity is met through abundance of opportunity through economic freedoms, where people are incentivized to continue following the norms that have built society to date.

Libertarianism is an ideal about the role of government as a whole, rather than a promotion of a certain life-way

In which case, libertarianism is about allowing excesses of wealth to be spent however the one who earned that wealth sees fit, and to live in any non-exploitative lifestyle they desire, making it fundamentally different from either of those two.