LIBERTARIANS: “THE PEOPLE’S FRONT OF JUDEA” POLITICAL PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES

In the classic film LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) from the geniuses of Monty Python which satirizes the life of Jesus Christ, there is an intellectual group called “The People’s Front of Judea.” Talking and notating about the political issues of the day while discussing how to improve the scenarios of the citizens as a resistance group to the Roman Empire, the group gets bogged down into inane conversations and refuses to act when injustice rears its ugly head. See this clip.

​And this one.

Welcome to the world of the 2025 Libertarian Party.

It pains me to recognize this reality. As a person who has always had an anarchist/libertarian belief system wrapped around an American political reality that shifts my beliefs from right to left to right and likely back again due to the changing focus of each Party, the libertarians are the living example of the Buffalo Bills missing a field goal wide right. Over the past twenty years, wonderful websites like the Libertarian Institute and the Mises Institute have been correct about so many things like the threat of big government on our monetary system, the danger of crony capitalism, the misguided social theories of the Democratic left, and most importantly, the futility of imperial war. As these theories became reality over the past decade, the steady growth of government which libertarians believe is inevitable eventually leads to authoritarianism. In March of 2020 (Five years ago), the fruits of these beliefs became a frightening reality. With Trump in office and Biden taking over in January 2021, the United States was taken over by a cabal of public health experts who:
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Locked down our nation
Forced us into wearing masks
Forced many public workers into getting a controversial, untested vaccine
Engaged in the greatest propaganda campaign in human history

And who was wrong about all these things.

Did the libertarians take advantage of this moment where so many of their theories were proven correct?

Nope
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Like the People’s Front of Judea, they sat around debating the pros and cons of the COVID era and made no effort to act against the totalitarian injustices being implemented. Coercion was used to force people into getting a shot that they had questions about, people lost their jobs for not complying, and the media brutally attacked anyone who had legitimate questions about the public health opinion. The libertarian movement fractured while ignoring the loss of personal rights and Constitutional violations that these lockdowns enabled. Good Libertarians eventually woke up to this con job like Tom Woods, Tom Luongo, and Lew Rockwell. Ron Paul never stopped having doubts. I discovered the wonders of Dave Smith during this era. But the movement during its time for action and faced with the ability to put into practice its philosophies decided to drive their car off the bridge and drown themselves in a river.

Donald Trump has cut more government spending than any libertarian has theoretically ever imagined. DOGE has been a wonderful implementation of executive power and has the majority of the American people’s support. Now if Trump can just get the Republicans in line and stop the insane House Spending Bill that will make every cut that Musk’s team has made pointless, maybe we can fix this increasingly broken country that is inevitably heading to a major recession at some point in the near future.

But whatever you think about what the appropriate size of government should be, the libertarians should have no say about it. They are a political party whose bite is much larger than its inept bite. The libertarians are the Pomeranians of political parties. This tiny dog never stops barking and can be very aggressive and feisty. But once it bites you, the impact is so minimal that you can’t help but give the little overgrown rat a nice hug and some food.

Don’t get me started on Chase Oliver. Dear God!
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Until next time!