most important is that you're grasping at a solution that lies outside of the two major parties!
Libertarianism means many different things to so many different people and so the mention of it leaves others bewildered as to what you mean to promote.
I've heard lots of different versions but I can't ever remember hearing anything that could work in a large civilized country for very long. In general, the libertarian seems to be wanting to live in isolation with rights that are impossible to be granted because of the greater demands of the many.
I'm always interested in hearing something about the libertarian agenda that could be workable and possible? Where would the population start with ideas to solve the problems in America?
Oh, you want an actual agenda of things that could work and be possible? Come on, man!
Just kidding, that's what we need to do, alright.
It's not easy to come up with something that would a) work and b) be possible, given our entrenched twoparty system that so many people have become willingly dependent on.
We would need a shift in attitudes about the role of government, which could only come either gradually, though persuasion or suddenly, due to our bloated system collapsing under its own weight. Unfortunately, in history, a collapsed authoritarian system has led to takeover by an even more authoritarian system, not a less authoritarian system.
My first steps would be
1) close the border and I mean really close it, like all other countries do with their borders.
2) Eliminate the artificial minimum wage, while at the same time eliminating all welfare to the working class. Giving health benefits, housing assistance, and cash to people with full times jobs is only a subsidy that allows giant corporations to pay poverty wages and still have millions of workers. These steps must be done in tandem. When working people see wages rise naturally to a living wage, they will be much happier than as forty hours per week, but still no dignity "working poor."
3) Once wages start rising, start shifting welfare dolees who still refuse to work to a group home system in stead of cash and prizes for not working. Give them three hots and a cot, with counseling and encouragement to go get a job on the now freer economy. Have them get sterilized, at least temporarily. If they refuse, stamp their meal card
"no desert."
4) The above may cost a little more at first as some workers will go from part-worker/part dolee to full dolee. Use the money saved by not being the world's no-cost (to the world) security forces. Again, a gradual drawdown, starting with Japan. Tell Japan they might want to get ready to take on China again. This time, we won't bother crossing the Pacific to help either side.
That's a start.
Someone upthread or on another thread said WTTE of: being libertarian means not having to defend anything.
Bull.
We don't have to defend Presidents who use their office to get blowjobs from overweight early twenty-somethings, nor men married to supermodels who still ride porn stars bareback. We don't have to defend our own party doing what they called "racist," less than a year ago. We don't have to pretend we don't know that our politicians are bought and paid for. It's a relief not to have to be a hypocrite so often.
But we have to defend the NAP, that "taxation is theft," and that we don't need another aircraft carrier when we can already blow up the world many times over.
