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Ok. Now to state something else that should be obvious to you (somehow it does not appear to be). If two ideologies agree at the ideology level, they are going to agree at the surface level because they tend to feel the same way about the same issues and will reach the same conclusions. So, what may appear to you to be a surface agreement may also be an ideological agreement. You are not understanding my argument because you are only looking at one side of it.
No, I understand it just fine. You're willing to apply significance to surface agreement with libertarians and the right, but are not willing to apply any significance to surface agreement with libertarians and the left. Then without going into any of the political philosophies you have said surface agreement can be indicative of philosophical agreement; yet you never demonstrate this. You just state the surface agreement for one argument as valid, and the surface agreement for the other argument as invalid.