What’s the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist? About 10 years.
It’s an old joke — and there are variations of it — but there’s some truth to it, because it’s a story that I’ve heard a number of times. In fact, it’s my story, too.
Most of us who’ve completely give up on the state started out in one of the mainstream political parties and then converted to the Libertarian Party, because we concluded that smaller government made sense and that there should be no distinction between economic and personal liberty. Republicans talk a good game about economic freedom, but they want to control your personal life. Democrats mostly talk a good game about personal (social) freedom, but they want to control your economic life. We see the contradiction of either of those positions, so we begin advocating the libertarian ideal of small government and freedom in all areas. For many of us, though, there’s a further step.
If you oppose government control on philosophical grounds, you soon run up against the issue of whether any form of the state can be morally justified. For many of us, we’ve reluctantly had to come to the conclusion that the state is immoral. Not just a “big state.” It applies to any state that claims the power to rule over the people and property that happens to fall within a certain geographical area — unless those people are there by their own choice and if they have other realistic choices.
Miss. church turns back clock by refusing to marry black couple
Knowing right choice years later is useless without time machine
Becoming who we’re meant to be is the hardest battle of our lives
Capitol rioters weren’t SS troops, just woeful losers living a fantasy
In a saner world, we would never hear a word about Jussie Smollett
‘Pretense of knowledge’ leads world down a dangerous path
I fear nobody will come with me as I start down a difficult path
Sounds of old music awakened repressed feelings from my past
What if we planted for future instead of spending for today?