Won't do it for you

I had the pleasure of speaking with my local Libertarian Party regional representative and during our conversation he said something that I have known, but had not expressed so clearly:

"The Libertarian party won't do anything for you. It enables you to do things for yourself."

This is exactly why I joined the party. I'm not looking for a hand out, or even a hand up. I just want government to do what it should, and nothing more.

Unfortunately there are far more people who believe that the government exists to do things for them, beyond just keeping the peace, securing the safety, operating just courts and putting out the occasional fire. It has been mentioned many times that the culture of entitlement is a plague on our society, and I think it bares repeating. The culture of entitlement is a plague on our society.

Until men are willing to stand on their own power they will not be complete people. Part of the growing up process is a complete separation, financially, from the parents. I'm not saying that the nation is filled with children but I am saying we have a great many underdeveloped adults who for lack of nothing more than the proper perspective believe the world owes them something.

The worst part has been that the bi-cameral uniparty has discovered this and exploited it. The irony of exploiting people by delivering unwarranted goods and services is beyond measure. By accepting these unwarranted goods and services they grow dependant on them. For at first the "assistance" seems like a wind fall, but soon, as per human nature, the receivers become used to having the assistance and naturally factor it in to their thinking when they are allocating their own resources. Thus, to remove the assistance represents an honest hardship as they have to refactor their thinking. The effect is to capture the receivers into the orbit of those who control the supply.

And that is the antithesis of Libertarianism because this system of entitlement ultimately puts others in control over yourself. Libertarianism rejects the lordship system and offers in its place a system of freedom.