Necessary Elitism

Libertarians strive to maximize freedom and individual opportunity. We believe that each person owns his or her own property, to include one's life, and has sole discretion about what to do with that property.

Simply put we believe in leaving everyone the hell alone.

It's rare throughout human history that a majority of a people have been willing to stand up for their own liberties. Our own electoral history makes a strong argument that a majority of Americans desire at least as much government as we currently have now. It's as if the only thing people despise more than oppressive big government, is the lack of government protections when they want them.

Don't let this discourage you, the opinion of the majority is no proof of justice. Your rights as an individual are unalienable and you cannot be deprived of them by any majority. The founders wrote checks upon government encroachment into the Constitution to ensure this would always be the case. The political class in America laughs at the "quaintness" of the Constitution, distorting it with each new generation. Someone has to put a stop to their abuses. Are you going to wait, going to let your freedom be whittled away until you can convince a majority of people that maybe being free is a “good idea”?

No, you’re going to take action. Samuel Adams said, it does not take a majority to prevail but an irate and tireless minority. The few can triumph over the many, over the majority. They’ll call you an elitist, an ideologue, and they’ll be right. In our modern Republic it is incumbent upon the Libertarian to trust his own judgment over that of his fellow men. We're not out to restrict people's rights, but to remove the restrictions placed upon them. To stare into the face of the majority and say "At least on this issue, I know better than you do."

Of course, we have to be more diplomatic than that. If we’re going to change the world we have to convince as many of THEM, to become one of US as we can. We have to break the hold of the political class on the masses. That starts with knowing that we're right.