The era of libertarian politics is over. It jumped the shark after Harry Browne's 2000 campaign. The Libertarian Party has been a great source of information and a fantastic way of making the public aware that there is more to political philosophy than left and right.

I believe the Libertarian Party has done its job as far as education is concerned. The message is out there: People know about liberty.

The problem that remains is that people don't believe society would function without governments doing all the things governments currently do.

A recent article by David Nolan, cofounder of the Libertarian Party, urges at the end to not send your money to the Barr campaign where it will inevitably be wasted. He then gives a couple of examples of Libertarian candidates worthy of your donations. Hey, live and let live. I fully support your right to send your money to those candidates.

However, I believe there is a better use for your money. I believe that those who will come to the message through libertarian campaigns have come, for the most part. Now they need to see real life examples.

One great example is the Free State Project, where thousands of people have agreed to move to one state (New Hampshire) to be activists for the cause of freedom, bringing about liberty in our lifetime in one small area of the world.

If you can't (or don't want to) move to New Hampshire, then I believe the best way to support the cause of liberty is to open free market alternatives to those things people believe only government can do.

People believe government is necessary for identification. Open up an identification service that does a better job than government for less money. People believe government is necessary for roads. Open up some great private roads (or better yet, invent some better transportation solutions). People believe only government can provide schools for the poor and middle class. Open up some schools for the poor, and teach them better than government schools (can you imagine that?).

Libertarians believe in free markets. It's high time we stop wasting money on getting people into government and start spending it on free market solutions, don't you think?

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