Libertarian?

2010 is coming to an end. For me personally, it will be the year I redefined myself from Conservative to Libertarian. Why did I do this? It has little to do with my own personal values. They have pretty much remained unchanged. I am a Christian, with very Christian values. What I am really truly beginning to understand is that the fight here isn't about values, values is what brings the left to do what it is they are doing. The fight here need only be about one thing: LIBERTY.



In order to fix our catastrophic problem of a sinking economy, one only needs to realize one thing. Government is not the answer to represent your values. If people on the left want to help the poor (a pretty good value for one to have). They need to understand that government will never be the answer to that. People can help people far better than the one for all answer that government can offer. The same rule applies to Conservatives. If you think we have a massive drug problem, the government will never be the answer to resolve that problem. We have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the war on drugs is an absolute failure. The problem here is that because you have a state, of course their answer will be they need more. More resources, more money, more more more more more. The war on drugs despite absolute failure has done nothing but enlarge itself to the point of hundreds of government agencies have been created and thousands of people employed full time spending billions of dollars, yet drug use has remained relatively unchanged since the inception of the war on drugs. We have to realize, government does not need to protect people from themselves. If someone wants to use drugs, it may be wrong, but it is not for government to decide that. Government is only supposed to protect liberty. If someone spends their life on heroin, it doesn't hurt any ones liberty. the fact is that since drugs are illegal (which they shouldn't be) has jacked up the price to the point that addicts steal from people thus removing their liberty to their property. So the end result is that government has actually removed liberty with its war on drugs. It has removed the liberty of the person to be on drugs if that is what they want., and it has removed liberty of those people that get robbed and killed either from drug cartels or drug users. What is governments answer, no it will never be to reverse its direction and stop the war and legalize, it will always be to follow its natural progression of more more more. We can win the war on drugs, we just need to hire 299 million of the 300 million Americans to fight it.



This is the natural progression for government to deal with their own failure. More! State education is failing our children, The state needs more money for education. Whats that? its still failing and kids are not testing well? We need a massive federal department of education! Whats that? Its still failing. Well then, teachers must need life long medical insurance and unfunded pensions that allow them to retire at 58. Whats that? Test scores are even lower than before? Have you considered a 2 1/2 over ride so we can build new schools? That's it, we have too many in a class room, we need a new school. Whats that? scores still suck and kids are dropping out. Have you considered giving teachers tenure so they cant be fired?



The state has a natural progression to enlarge itself. This is exactly why the founders made constraints on it at the federal level. Of course that couldn't last forever. States have a natural progression towards higher control. If a law is passed to correct a problem and by correcting this problem they started 3 new problems what would the natural progression be? To remove the existing law, or make 3 new laws to fix the new problems.



The answer is Libertarianism. You don't have to compromise your beliefs to be a libertarian. For example, if you want to help the poor, take some damn money out of your pocket a help. Want to do it on a massive scale. Go ahead make a charity and do it. In the form of a charity you can change constantly to your peoples needs, have no law in the way of who gets what or how much. Liberty will fix all our problems! (I am talking about the real problems, not global warming!). It will fix our economy. It will fix our poverty.



The one thing that stands in the way is the fact the currently we have close to a majority that is receiving from the government and doesn't understand they can create more wealth themselves than the government could ever hope to give them. There are something like 40% of Tea Partiers that don't understand that social security and medicare account for most of the federal budget. they stand up saying they want smaller government, but don't think that it needs to mean social security. Social security is the majority if the big government your complaining about. We need our own Tea Party members to completely swallow the red pill and understand that all social programs are hurting us and social security is the big hurt. Yes I have been paying into it for over 20 years too. But the sooner you realize it was stolen the sooner you can move on towards libertarianism. The sooner you stop saying I want smaller government, but I still want my social security check and medicare, the sooner we can win this. All politicians wont cut S.S. because they know that it will keep them out of office. so you can stop blaming the politicians and start blaming ourselves. Rand Paul needs to be able to look us in the eye and say "I am going to cut your social security" and not have to get voted our because of it.



If all government was gone tomorrow and you woke up in the wildiness, could you survive? Do you depend on the government to live? Are you willing to live without anything offered by the government except protection? If so, perhaps your libertarian?