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[Eckhart Aurelius Hughes]

Eckhart Aurelius Hughes is the author of In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All. He also runs a free mentoring program that guarantees success..

In terms of the definition of the word, what a libertarian is is very simple. A 'libertarian' is simply someone who supports and strictly follows the Non-Aggression Principle. In other words, the word 'libertarian' simply means, 'someone who opposes all non-consensual non-defensive violence against other humans who are capable of consent'. That is it; no more, no less.

Accordingly, libertarians come in all sorts of forms. They are a very diverse group. There's left-wing vegan communists who are libertarians, and there are right-wing bible-thumping Christians conservatives who are libertarians. There's gay libertarians, and there's homophobic libertarians. There's black libertarians, white libertarians, mixed race libertarians, anti-racism libertarians, and even some racist libertarians. As I say, it's a very diverse group, namely because the definition of it is so simple and what they support is so agreeable. The the Non-Aggression Principle is so agreeable that even the most wild extremists from all different sides typically agree with it.

Nonetheless, despite the extreme diversity of libertarians, like anything there's stereotypes. And like usual, those stereotypes are wrong, and kind of ridiculous when you think about them for even a little bit.

A common myth and utterly false stereotype about libertarians is that they hate public schools and roads and local self-government and such. The exact opposite is actually the case. Libertarians love self-government. The word 'freedom' means 'self-government'. That's what it means. And libertarians love it.

Libertarians give tons of money to charity, and they are very happy to pay for services they actually use, including paying a premium so discounts, scholarships, and freebies can be provided to the needy. They are also often very happy to voluntarily buy services or such in a bundle and paying the full price of the bundle even if though they surely don't use some or many of the items in the bundle.

Libertarians don't go to the gym and say, "I'm going to pay 10% of the monthly fee you charge for this gym because I'm only going to use these few machines over here and not use the other 90% of the gym, and you have to let me!" No, libertarians are happy to pay the full membership fee that the gym charges to use any of that gym at all even though they will only use 10% of it. Or, at least, they are happy to be denied entry to the gym entirely due to their unwillingness to pay the price.

Libertarians don't go to their HOA or the landlord at their apartment complex and say they are only going to pay 80% of their rent because they don't use the community swimming pool (or tennis court or whatever) in the apartment complex or condo community or HOA-covered neighborhood. No, they are happy to pay for the full cost, according to the written paper contract they voluntarily signed. In fact, many libertarians might go to the HOA meeting and vote to increase HOA fees/rent/etc. to build an even bigger pool or tennis court or take even better care of the pool or tennis court or whatever that is already there.

Libertarians are happy to not only pay their fair share, but more than their fair share.

But all of that gets to the big myth I primarily mean to talk about. And here's that big myth and false stereotype: A lot of people falsely think that most libertarians believe the government spends too much on valuable services and projects such as schools and roads and charity.

That is totally untrue.

The exact opposite is the case: Generally, libertarians believe that big government spends way too little on those things while dishonesty pretending to spend way too much on them.

Moreover, they realize that isn't a corrupt government that can be fixed, but rather it is an inherent inescapable trait of all big government, including all big governments that ever have been and all that ever will be.

That comes from a simple truth that has been proven true over and over and over again throughout all the thousands of years of human history since the first king issued the first tax and since the first mafia created the first mafia-style protection racket. And that simple truth is this: Violent robbers will always lie about how they spend the money they violently steal from you. They lie about how they will spend; they lie about how they do spend it, and they how they did spend it.

Whatever amount a big government claims it is spending on some project--be it a "war on drugs", a "war on poverty", "foreign aid", or schools and roads--they are lying.

They will pretend to spend way too much fixing a problem than it would cost to fix it while at the same time going out of their way to make sure to not fix it and to make it even worse if they can. That isn't sometimes; it's every single time. They would never ever want to win a war on drugs or a war on poverty or such, because then they would lose the excuse to violently rob you to make themselves rich.

The last thing a mafia protection racket wants is for you to be safe.

All federal government spending is legal money laundering designed to make the already rich even richer and the already powerful even more powerful.

If a politician votes for a bill that is allegedly going to spend $100 billion on schools or roads or "war on drugs" or "war on poverty" that is not what is actually happening. They are voting solely to take $100 billion that was violently robbed from taxpayers and launder it into the hands of themselves and their rich cronies.

We want our schools and roads to actually be funded and improved and well taken care of. And we realize violent robbers will never do that, especially to the degree power and money is centralized into a big far away violent government instead of local, peaceful, and decentralized.

Only through the drastic reduction (if not elimination) of violent robbery, combined with the incredible power of peacefulness, self-government, decentralization, and localization, will things like schools, roads, and true charity ever be properly funded and taken care of.

Otherwise, the violent robbers who are the very ones destroying those things by violently stealing the funds that would otherwise go to them will continue to dishonesty use those things as a false flag and thinly veiled disguise for their blatant oligarchic money laundering scheme to launder the money they have violently robbed from you and your community and its schools and roads and anti-poverty campaigns.



With love,
Eckhart Aurelius Hughes

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