Scott Horton

It's always the Americans that screw things up.

You complain they didn't ratify the thing, but they abided by it for years.

So that's an interesting disagreement.

Well, the very basis of libertarianism is the non-aggression principle, which essentially is the same thing as our social rules for dealing with each other in private life.

No force, no theft, no fraud, and keep your hands to yourself.

And we apply that same moral law to government.

And so, you know, some libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, some are

so-called minarchists, meaning we want the absolute minimum amount of government, a night watchman type state.

Uh, and in other words, just enough to enforce contracts and protect property rights and allow freedom and a free market to work.

There's also, of course, natural rights theory, Austrian school economics, and a lot of revisionist history.

Um, and, uh,

And something very key to libertarian theory is expressed by Marianne Rothbard, was that war is the key to the whole libertarian business.

Because especially in the United States of America, as long as we maintain a world empire, it makes it impossible for us to have a limited and decentralized government here at home, as our Constitution describes.

And so I was going to crack a joke, but neither of you have called me an isolationist yet, but I was going to joke that,

Yes, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Isolation, the same guy, a principal author of the Declaration of Isolation, he said in his first inaugural address, we seek peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations and entangling alliances with none.

And that's the true libertarian philosophy.

Thank Dr. Ron Paul, the great congressman for many years up there.

He was opposed to all sanctions, all economic war on the rest of the world and the entire state of the United States as world empire.

And what's strange now is that anyone who wants just peace as the standard is considered an isolationist.

And people who are for world empire and a permanent state of conflict with the rest of the world, economic war, coups and regime changes and even invasions, those are considered normal people.