Political Parties

With the apparent shift in policy the last four years, perhaps it is time to rename the Grand Old Party. Here are some suggestions...

Politics is always about power, wealth and ego. When any of those desires can be obtained through war politicians will pursue war. Libertarians want to change that.

The Non-Aggression Principle against coercion, intimidation and fraud is the ultimate expression of compassion because libertarians apply it unselfishly to everyone.

Volunteerism belongs in the party platforms of both Republicans and Democrats as a solution to the social problems of the United States. But both parties have lost sight of this important part of American exceptionalism.

The GOP likes to say they're fiscally responsible and that Democrats like to "tax and spend". When the actual data is analyzed, we find Republican administrations have been "tax cut and borrow" and the largest contributors to the deficit.

Free market capitalism is in a fight for survival against corporatism, a political ideology in which big corporations and big government collude for mutual benefit

Some people are born with a spark of individualism, others find that spark later in life, but it’s that special spark that separates individualists from collectivists.

In 2016, a fractured Democratic Party and a disliked candidate handed the presidency to Donald J. Trump. This time around, it's the GOP in disarray.

Women have always been active participants in the Modern American Libertarian Movement. Maybe they’re just not all being counted in those “Where are they?” surveys.

The divide of liberals in conservatives is brought up constantly in the United States' media. There is a common misconception that liberalism is leftist. In this article, I explain why liberalism is not left-wing.

Philosophically, ideologically, politically collectivists hone in on the universality of human nature while libertarians focus on the individuality of human nature.

I pity the poor Republicans. Judging by the effects of the Reagan, Bush, and Nixon administrations, I think the Republicans will fail once again under Trump.

Democrats often complain that they are being insulted when Republicans and other opponents employ the term " Democrat" in place of " Democratic," while referring to that party, its officials, or its policies. The distinction is trivial, influenced primarily by dialect more than desire to insult.

Libertarianism is not a feature of the Democratic Party; in fact, the Republican Party's ideology is more libertarian in nature, advocating smaller government and less regulation, which are the main tenets of libertarianism.

Free speech can only justifiably be banned in the private sector. Unfortunately, there is no private sector. The Government-Corporatist Complex controls everything.

The 2016 presidential election had far greater consequences for the United States and the world than prior cycles going back decades. Politics is changing, parties are re-aligning, and a new reality is settling in. 2020 may well cement the great shift in American politics for at least a generation.

If evolution has sped up to the extent that it has affected our racial, sexual and gender issues does that mean the libertarian philosophy will evolve faster too?

People on the centre left of politics strive for a society of equality and stress the importance of the community over the individual.

A thought project for libertarians and everyone else: Answer your own questions—how would YOU solve society’s problems without coercion, intimidation or fraud?

There is an interesting allegory between Machiavelli's role in the ever-changing Florentine Republic and the role of the modern-day Republican in the Age of Trump. Two very different political situations joined together by a common theme: Survival.

This isn’t an attempt to explain economics or markets or trade, just an attempt to make sense out of the nonsense of trade in the economic world.

How to help others understand the beauty of the libertarian philosophy of peace, freedom, and compassion for everyone without leaving the comfort of your armchair.

After reading this article, you will understand that it was not just one event or one group of people that created the forces for the GOP takeover of government, but it was a long line of individuals who were able to create the proper conditions for takeover.

Libertarians are split on abortion. Here’s an opinion based on rationally defined terms and a logically applied Non-Aggression Principle, not on personal attacks.

So many people have Conceptual-Reality Undifferention Disorder (CRUD) that it needs its own entry in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Cognitive Disorders.

Consciously or subconsciously we all label each other until we get to know each other as individuals. But some people never get beyond their negative labeling.

Finding no antidote to the SJW-left in libertarianism some went over to the alt-right Dark Side and became alt-liberARYAN, becoming no better than the alt-left.

While liberals and conservatives may differ in certain beliefs, the harm they do to the American public is still just as cruel.

Online debate sites are a swamp that will drown the unwary. Only those who stay calm and make their attackers defend their own insults have a chance at survival.

Busting the myth of the "wasted" third party vote and exploring why a third party vote may be the best solution to the two-party duopoly.

Libertarians are everywhere, online and off, in politics, society, communities, your neighborhood. We're fighting the culture war against the authoritarian left and right.

Conservative voters have been convinced that the term "liberal" is something so vile and scary that they are willing to go to extremes to combat electing one to government. Here are some examples.

People who don’t want to admit that they just don’t get libertarianism—but still want to sound informed—create endless counterfeit libertarians and pretend they’re real.

Progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans are moving so far apart that there seems little hope of bridging the divide.

Those who claim to be “former” libertarians are simply those who never fully grasped libertarianism; they never really got beyond their old left-right politics.

No matter how rude, crude, imbecilic and wrong anti-libertarian mockery gets on the internet it still means this: Modern American libertarianism is here to stay!

One's political views reflect one's belief system, and one's belief system reflects one's character. I could never date a conservative. Here's why.

Because of deeply held philosophical, psychological and emotional differences libertarians rarely become groupthinkers and groupthinkers rarely become libertarians.

The Non-Aggression Principle is not a philosophy, not a textbook, not a user manual, not the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. It’s a principle!

An exploration of why is it so difficult for socialists and libertarians to understand one another.

It’s hard for libertarians to take the high road in response to fake news and hate speech when the road that Salon and AlterNet obsessively take is against them.

Freethink and Groupthink are deeply embedded mindsets. These viscerally experienced differences can only be accommodated in a free and openly voluntary society.

A libertarian advocate writes that libertarians should stop just advocating and launch a “hands-on movement.” Where has this person been for the last 70-plus years?

Infighting keeps libertarianism viable, vital, vibrant, vigorous, virtuous and ultimately victorious. Infighting is libertarianism’s strength, not its weakness.

The country wants a working government and choice in their politics. But the two-party system denied us that result. Independents failed to gain a foothold via the presidency. This is another option.

Our attempts at civil online discourse frequently devolve into insults, mockery and ridicule along with endless mutual charges of “Contrived Social Constructs.”

Those we elected to represent us in Washington have betrayed us. Congress is a mess of different and warring views that threaten our present and our future.