The #Libertarian Party from day 1 and since has been against the drug war, foreign intervention. From day 1 we’ve been for consenting adults entering the social and economic relationships of their choosing. We stubbornly support freedom. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 30, 2019
As an ardent Individualist I condemn collectivism along any vector such as race, gender, identity, religion, wealth, ideology etc. I love being in the Libertarian Party because we are diverse and celebrate the differences freedom allows to thrive. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 30, 2019
Whether we agree on every policy view or not there is one thing I hold true. A message of love, empowerment and peace is the right one versus one of division, dependence and hate for short term political gain. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/7drXmx4N4j
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 27, 2019
No solution is universal. The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of implementation all influence success. Knowing there is so many variables I would prefer small scale market experimentation that can quickly end, adapt or scale. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/gmvEPrEbfw
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 27, 2019
I don’t collect guns or hunt, I don’t do pot or shrooms (I don’t even drink). Despite my choices I protect the right of everyone else to make different choices because an attack on any right is an attack on all rights. #amliberty #politics
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 26, 2019
More people and more types of people are good for what brings us together and drives us apart and ultimately keeps us free. #amliberty #libertarian #immigration #diversity #liberal #diversity pic.twitter.com/cgT38MTYQ1
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 24, 2019
In an ever changing world we need rules and institutions that adapt and evolve with society which can only be discovered and maintained by diverse voluntary arrangements reacting to each other in an ongoing process. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/Be9mMwyeYR
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 24, 2019
Would you rather someone give you what you need or give you the knowledge to attain it. Freedom allows us to find knowledge in our every choice and action. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/zTG5ZKFYDI
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 23, 2019
If you try to manufactur trust the costs grow as you punish more and more of those who take advantage of that trust instead of an environment where people develop the sense to discover trust through trial and error. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 23, 2019
If you try to make people happy the costs grow in satisfying whims instead of an environment in which people can more likely find ways to make each other happy. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 23, 2019
Policy, institutions and norms should not seek to create happiness, trust and other social goods but seek to create an environment in which they emerge. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 23, 2019
Subscribe to the podcast on Spotifyhttps://t.co/dLZZfJGgTS#amliberty #libertarian #trypod pic.twitter.com/Nfl2QkW8F3
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 19, 2019
Convention has a tendency of pushing society down destructive paths, break it. End prohibition, end the wars, enable free trade using any medium of exchange, allow for generous immigration and emigration. Free people just work. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 18, 2019
Governments take action which usually results in limiting individual action and limiting individuals in organizing. The result is we are limited in how we can solve future challenges and then people wonder why those challenges persist and worsen. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 17, 2019
Libertarians aren’t about not doing anything, but we do have difference in who should take action. We want individuals to take action and for collectives of CONSENTING individuals to be able to solve social and economic challenges. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 17, 2019
What does a #Libertarian want?
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 17, 2019
✅ For the liberty to want and believe different things which are achieved by earning the consent of others
❌ We are a not a collective seeking to impose our judgements, values or prescriptions on everyone by compulsion.#amliberty
Controlling the world only ends up creating large disparities between those who can resist those controls and those can’t. Only freedom can reduce those disparities. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/J0XGDCpVAY
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 17, 2019
If your concern is the will of the powerful, the greatest and only punishment you can provide is the freedom of the powerless to create alternatives to their centers of power. Although to free anyone requires us to free everyone. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 17, 2019
Justice isn’t deciding everything and anything should be punishable with economic and physical costs. Punishments whether laws, regulations or taxes always fall heaviest on the least powerful. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 17, 2019
All social and an economic phenomena that arises individual action is from individual motivation. Interfering in individual agency on a mass scale can create very unintended and often pernicious trends that are hard to unwind painlessly. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/dOoyBXRzP0
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 16, 2019
Social trust and distrust both serve a function. The former allows us to work together on larger scales the later protects that scale from getting so large it begin oppressing rampantly. #amliberty #freemarkettrust #consentmarkets
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 16, 2019
To the extent that governments decide rules they should only handle the rules that should never or very rarely change because that will be the result. As a #Libertarian, the areas of governance that don’t need adaptation, accountability and alternatives is SMALL. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 15, 2019
The real concern is the dynamics of these institutions. Can they adapt to changing circumstances quickly, can people hold them accountable with voice and exit, and are their alternatives when they fail. Government often fails all three of these tests. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 15, 2019
It’s not a matter of governance/no governance. Society is governed by a vast array or organizations such families, clubs, businesses, charities, community organizations and the norms that arise from their interactions. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 15, 2019
End Military Interventionism and embrace peace through trade, travel and friendship. End the injustice of the war on drugs/sex work and end the punishment of the vulnerable. Embrace markets, charity and community instead of trying to replace it with policy. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 14, 2019
Seeing the pain in the hearts of others and the results breaks my heart. I know love can heal those wounds but as one person I can never love enough to heal them all but I do try. What I can do is encourage others to love and hope we get somewhere. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 14, 2019
If you live to love you’ll love to live. Practice empathy, tolerance, forgiveness and tolerance you’ll find your life filled with liberty, opportunity and success. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 14, 2019
Just a friendly reminder that governments are just corporations who assume a monopoly over compelling people in a geographic area. Each citizen is granted one non-transferable voting common share whether they like it or not that comes with a hefty negative dividend. #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 13, 2019
To get people to disarm their hearts so we have a world of individual peace, we need to live and model the world we want. #Libertarian #amliberty pic.twitter.com/SVnP6oVSBU
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 12, 2019
I’m a nice guy and everyone gets a chance to be my friend. I don’t judge people by the perceptions of others but my own interactions. I am an individualist seeking to promote radical levels of tolerance, forgiveness, empathy and kindness and I do it by example. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 12, 2019
* Summary: if prisons are rewarded by the quality not quantity of prisoners it creates an incentive for better behavior of prisoners and prisons. Ideal justice reforms would lead to less prisoners/prisons. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 11, 2019
Summary: if prisoners are rewarded by the quality not quantity of prisoners it creates an incentive for better behavior of prisoners and prisons. Ideal justice reforms would lead to less prisons/prisons. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 11, 2019
Every action comes at a cost of the action not taken. You can assert that the benefit of the subsidized action outweighs the opportunity cost. In a world of opposing and conflicting government incentives, I find it hard to believe. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/x60TxAkLZf
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 11, 2019
Every action comes at a cost of the action not taken. You can assert that the benefit of the subsidized action outweighs the opportunity cost. In a world of opposing and conflicting government incentives, I find it hard to believe. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/HbM8BLa3Gv
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 11, 2019
Fun Fact, You can want to reduce the disadvantages that people live with without resenting others for the privileges that they may have. We should want everyone to enjoy as many privileges as possible. #ConsentMarkets empower all. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 10, 2019
Political solutions are about getting 51% in a given moment to subjugate 49% against their will creating division and distrust. Consent based solutions are about building relationships and earning trust overtime to empower/unite everyone. #Libertarian #ConsentMarkets #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 10, 2019
In my opinion, the message of doom, gloom and desperation is losing its political power. Seeing the landscape there is growing and visible demand for a message of coexistence, empowerment and optimism for better solutions. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/Wq0lHtls0v
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 9, 2019
Black Markets lead to violence, poor quality control and wide spread social and economic costs. Black markets arise when government prohibits or makes very difficult to attain a good or service. #Libertarian #Amliberty pic.twitter.com/7nR3HZArzL
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 9, 2019
If consent brings reciprocity and accountability why wouldn’t we want to introduce more consent in education, healthcare and housing? #ConsentMarkets #FreeMarketsMatter #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 8, 2019
To me capitalism just means economy by consent, to others it means bosses overpowering workers and to others supporting business as a matter of policy with tariffs/subsidies/etc. I rather be clear that I’m advocating for #consentmarkets. #FreeMarketsMatter #Amliberty pic.twitter.com/ISB8Juenip
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 7, 2019
I want to live in a @michaelboldin world where there isn’t just only Sanctuary Cities to push against immigration controls but against prohibition, regulations, taxation, self-defense controls and other attempts to move away from a consent based society. #amliberty #libertarian pic.twitter.com/U32Pa0Y9MC
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 6, 2019
#ConsentMarkets promote reciprocity and accountability, the minute we take consent out of our arrangements they become one sided and unaccountable. #Libertarian #Amliberty pic.twitter.com/AwANnSvOa8
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 6, 2019
The problem is when any aspect of anyone’s identity is seen as defining them and then used as reason to arbitrarily control, punish or privilege others. Otherwise, nothing wrong with being proud of all that makes you, you! #amliberty pic.twitter.com/YAmlrOrzPd
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 4, 2019
Every idea has an origin story and the story of oppression, control and division often finds itself rooted in pain from the past. Past the pain when it heals is an individual peace that preserves all our rights. #Amliberty #IndividualPeace #DisarmOurHearts pic.twitter.com/ukvWkUVZ1Q
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 2, 2019
We can’t stand alone, so we voluntarily build communities, families and other institutions. Putting all our dependency in any one institution puts us at risk for severe power asymmetries. #amliberty #decentralization #individualism #libertarian pic.twitter.com/YB4a2uvrnc
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) April 1, 2019
