I write for free thinkers, not party-line Libertarians
I write for free thinkers who’d rather burn the system down than beg for scraps from the Libertarian Party. My books are fire, not ballots.
I’m a libertarian. But not the kind that shows up at Libertarian Party conventions wearing a porcupine pin, arguing over platform planks no one outside the room will ever read.
Nope. I’m a lowercase l libertarian. The kind that believes liberty isn’t something to be voted on, negotiated, or focus-grouped. It’s a f*cking birthright. And if you have to beg the state to give it back, you’ve already lost.
Let me explain why I’ll never join the uppercase L Libertarian Party.
libertarian philosophy, not politics
Yeah, that subheading began with a lowercase ‘l’ for a reason. Anyway, the philosophy of libertarianism is simple. Let me break it down for you:
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Don’t hurt people.
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Don’t take their stuff.
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Live and let live.
The Libertarian Party, on the other hand, is a political machine. And like every other party, it plays the same corrupt game of compromise, branding, and power-seeking. That’s not liberty. It’s just a smaller version of the same swamp.
Purity vs. Pragmatism: I don’t care about votes
I’ve watched the LP dilute its message for years just to “get votes.” You end up with candidates who can barely explain what they stand for (or where Aleppo is) because they’re too busy trying to look “respectable” for the media.
Guess what? Liberty is not respectable to the establishment. It’s radical by nature, and I’m fine with that.
Voluntaryism over political theater
If I want to live free, I don’t need to beg the government or check a box on a ballot. I can live free by opting out of their nonsense, like starting my own business (selling my own books, for example), homeschooling, ditching fiat currency (I collect metals and invest in crypto), or simply ignoring the state’s draconian mandates wherever possible (like I did during the COVID crisis).
The LP, meanwhile, is busy putting on another convention show, fighting over who gets to be the “face” of liberty for the next election cycle. Yeah, that’s a hard pass for me.
The Libertarian Party is an embarrassment
Let’s be real. The Libertarian Party has spent decades shooting itself in the foot with terrible optics, bad PR, and candidates who don’t even embody the ideas they claim to stand for. It’s like watching a band play all the wrong notes while insisting they’re headlining the freedom tour.
Culture trumps campaigns – pun intended
You don’t win liberty through ballots, as the 2024 election all but drove home. You win it through culture by making people value freedom so much that they’ll never tolerate tyranny.
That’s where I’m focused: Changing minds, challenging narratives, and building communities that don’t need permission to exist. Politics will always lag behind culture.
I don’t want power; they do
Here’s the dirty little secret of the LP: it still wants power. Less power than the Democrats or Republicans, sure, but power all the same. I want no one to have power over me, and that includes the LP. That’s a difference you can’t reconcile.
So yeah, I’m a lowercase‘ l’ libertarian
No party membership card, no porcupine pin, and no illusion that a few ballots will undo centuries of creeping authoritarianism.
Liberty doesn’t need a party to survive. It needs individuals who refuse to bow. That’s who I am, and that’s why I’ll never put an uppercase L on it.
Know who else has a mind built for free thinkers? Quinn Cozens. The protagonist in Book I of my Beyond the Lost trilogy, Beyond the Lost Horizon.
Like me, Quinn don’t need any political parties. Hell, he’s a revisionist through and through. So much, that this dystopian survival trilogy he takes center stage in might just be a libertarian blueprint disguised as genre fiction.
