Libertarian Party

two major parties come to mind, the republicans or the democrats. People usually think that if one does not like taxes, then they tend to associate with the Republicans, if they want more social programs they associate themselves with the Democrats. One fact that people always seem to forget is that the United States of America is not a two party state and that there are several other parties out there with which the people can associate themselves with depending upon their personal preferences on how a country should be run or what policies they would like to see implemented. There are several reasons why the two major parties dominate the political landscape. One of the…

The Libertarian Party highly values liberty, and idealizes a world where every individual makes his or her own choices for themselves. They have elected Gary Johnson as president and William Weld as vice president. The national debt, war on drugs, and civil liberties are three main issues to the candidate. Gary Johnson strongly believes that excessive spending by the government is one of the greatest threats to national security, legalizing marijuana would create a safer society and an…

In picking my three parties I chose Republican, Democrat and Libertarian. I chose these three parties because they are the dominant parties and I would like to know more about them. Libertarian was a new word to me and therefore I also chose them. I choose to cover education and crime. I chose these topics because they seem to be a common debate and no doubt in the media. The republican party believes in “Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and United…

"There is nothing to take a man 's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else." (Anthem). There are many different definitions of freedom and freedom means different things to every individual person. For that reason, I think that is why there are different groups, such as the Libertarian’s and Rawlsian. Both of these groups have principles that relate to freedom, but just like every individual they have the…

Ayn Rand is also noted for her contributions to libertarian philosophy. She is seen as the most influential figure to those who have adopted libertarian styled thinking. Her famous work The Fountainhead is an allegory of one of the larges libertarian ideas. As libertarians, the belief that you are under complete ownership of yourself is a hallmark. There should not be any reason in the world that you are compelled to sacrifice your time unless you are compelled to do so. Consequent to this…

In Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky describes the vicious cycle of how concentration of wealth supplies concentration of power, and the political power turns into legislation which concentrates more wealth, and so on, and so on. Chomsky talks about how people will never be able to reach the American Dream. People will never reach the American Dream because of what Chomsky stated in his documentary, which is because of the wealth of nations, the attack on solidarity, and marginalize…

Anarchists are standing up for many movements that they find unsuitable. Most of them disagree with the way the government is running society. In fact, they believe that society does not need the government at all. The rules they are coming up with are their way of protecting themselves and the rich. How about the poor? Do some of them tend to steal because they are not receiving help from the government? Are people getting involve in illegal activities because the state does not approve it but…

When you think of the term ‘anarchist’, you would imagine some crazy person who’s against the status quo and wants to destroy society as we know it. Someone who sets fires to random buildings all the time and yells their message of overthrowing the only thing keeping society together to the uninterested passerby. A person whose ideas are just so obscure that they couldn’t possibly work in a modern society. Emma Goldman was one of these labeled ‘anarchists’, who supported equality for women,…

They argue in favour of the right to life and the right to property. However, in the libertarian view the right to life does not refer to a right to receive goods and resources from others in order to preserve one 's live, but simply the right not to have one 's live interfered with or ended by other individual. The same applies to the libertarian 's right to property. It is the right not to be interfered with regarding goods and resources acquired legitimately, and not the right to receive…

Libertarians, believe that while they're unequivocally responsible for any evils they may inflict on others, regardless of what the cercumstances my be that they owe those people compenstation. However, They also allege that there is no conceivable argument that we owe something, as matter of general duty to those whom we have not wronged. A good generalization of Libertarians is that they 'would go as far as abolishing the state welfair scheames helping to house, feed, provied insurance…