A world of liberty allows anyone to live their life as they see fit but also gives them every incentive to seek community, cooperate and be considerate of others. Why, because you need to associate with others and earn their consent to grow. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 31, 2019
Socialization is anti-social because if aid/support/compliance is coerced from society then the need to cooperate and become part of the social fabric is less allowing many to give in to individual isolationism without concern. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 31, 2019
Independence and liberty are pro-social. For a free person, building social networks is vital to survive and thrive as they provide individuals to trade, socialize and seek assistance from. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 31, 2019
Libertarianism is anti-fear and pro-empowerment while everyone else tries to scare you into giving them power, we ask you to take that power back. #amliberty pic.twitter.com/KSsgvKAZoW
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 29, 2019
Libertarianism is about realizing the only thing certain in life is uncertainty, so we need to be free to adapt and adjust. That our public and private leaders aren’t the source of relief, but that the source is in ourselves. #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 29, 2019
Libertarianism is about believing in oneself enough to want all your rights so you defend everyone’s rights to protect your own. That you can be skeptical, hopeful and positive enough to push away the fears others try to place in you to control you. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 29, 2019
I’m watching a tv clip on how “corporate America” takes advantage of fear. The exploitation of fear happens in all sectors public and private. Fear earns votes and purchases, Libertarianism is an anti-fear empowerment message that you can take care of yourself. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 29, 2019
Property Rights and the environment often get along a lot better than Captain Planet re-runs will let on. #amliberty https://t.co/93EqQQMtMe
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 29, 2019
People focus too much on outliers and anecdotes. Free Markets work on us building trust and being honest with each other, and if look at most of our lives this should be clear. #amliberty https://t.co/dhz8jwQuOH
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 28, 2019
Breaking the militarism and welfare loops will have short run pain for those who’ve become dependent on them but will bring long sustainable property for all as disposable incomes increase and investment in consumer goods expands. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 26, 2019
The Militarism Loop:
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 26, 2019
If threat identified
Build more weapons, train more troops
Country becomes more dependent on jobs from building weapons
Pay with more taxes or more debt
Destroy threat
Destruction abroad creates new threats
Repeat Militarism loop #amliberty
The Welfare Loop:
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 26, 2019
If the poor exist
Then increase welfare
Pay for welfare with taxes or debt
If paid with taxes
Costs rise, disposable incomes shrink
If paid with debt
Less capital for investment, higher rates
The Poor Increase in Quantity
Repeat Loop #amliberty
I feel many people think the government spending they don’t like is a much larger part of the budget than they realize. They also don’t realize the opportunity cost and economic distortions of the spending they do like. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 26, 2019
Why does choice matter? Choice provides an escape from social/economic arrangements you can’t tolerate, choice gives us an incentive to be better to earn consent, choice allows abuses to be temporary not persistent. If you are going to vote, vote for choice! #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 21, 2019
It’s not that there aren’t bad people in world but if we become bad people to deal with them all we’ve done is grow the number of bad people. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 20, 2019
Give individuals great responsibility and they will have great power to do great things. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
A libertarian worldview aims for institutions or practices that don’t imply some people are inherently better, worse, helpless, harmful but that each with out unique privileges and challenges have the ability to put out good or bad. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
When government taxes, subsidized and regulates it implies that some deserve to be punished and others can’t ever overcome on their own. These signals have a profound effect on culture and how we see and treat each other. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
Libertarianism is all about individuals. Individuals have infinite possibility to create good and bad. Let’s expect good from each other not just in our words but in our actions, by allowing others the freedom to manifest those great expectations in their own terms. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
Why does this matter? If we focus on seeing and expecting the worst from each other the more that will manifest. When people feel how others see them won’t change they give in and give people what they want. Let’s expect more, expect better. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
People have a tendency of trying to live up to the expectations of others, good or bad. Imagine that kid who got labeled the class clown, they probably overtime embraced that more than it was initially true. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
A more welcoming attitude also allows the best norms among all cultures to persist and bad norms to die as people experience diverse forms and adopt the best and give up the bad. Diversity brings a lot to the table. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
Of course when you have a convoluted system to bring in more people that gives some little choice but to be undocumented, you limit how they can participate and provide for themselves and others. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
Benefits of immigration or more people in general. More entrepreneurs, more workers, more consumers, more friends, more lovers, more innovation. More people just means more of the good people bring to our lives. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
If you regulate, tax and subsidize away people’s challenges, ability to take risk and measure their consequences, you eliminate the good that comes out of it. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
It’s our unique challenges that make us wiser, it’s the risks we take that transform our lives or prepare us for the next attempt. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 17, 2019
If in all realms you win with hope, integrity, consent and kindness you inspire others to win in that way. This is my mission and what drives me. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 14, 2019
In domestic policy if you achieve your ends with controlling and confiscating the property of others, you signal to others to do the same to achieve their ends. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 14, 2019
In foreign policy if you achieve your ends through force and bribery you signal to others they should do the same to achieve their ends. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 14, 2019
In all things it doesn’t just matter that you win but how you win, as how you win signals to others how they should win. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 14, 2019
Does what happen to Epstein really change how taxes reduces our incomes and regulations increase our costs making life hard for families and entrepreneurs. Does it change that we are constantly at war making the world less safe and putting our children in harms way? #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 11, 2019
People who seek power over you tell you when scary things happen, give them the keys so they can make it better but rarely do. Us Libertarians ask you to have hope things can get better, so we encourage you to hold on to the drivers seat of your own life. #amliberty #libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 11, 2019
Markets (resilient and anti fragile) vs Governments (slow, rigid, opaque), it’s always an easy choice where I rather more of society function. #Libertarian #Amliberty pic.twitter.com/xhumR8xtpw
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 10, 2019
So yes, I think markets are a boon to society, because all markets are is allowing consent to be injected into our social and economic arrangements providing accountability, reciprocity and knowledge. Being #Libertarian to me is just obvious the more I learn. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 10, 2019
So much about society needs resiliency and adaptability and that’s what markets (radical individual consent) bring. Governments on the other hand can’t respond as quickly and are better at preventing change than creating it. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 10, 2019
It’s not that markets or governments provide perfection to society but when governments fail that failure persist till the political will forms to stop it. In markets, failures often result in insolvency and rising alternatives much quicker. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 10, 2019
Focusing on living the best life for you and those you care about allows you to inspire others to behave better to emulate your results as well as allows you to be happier in general. Focusing on punishment often creates a cycle of despair instead of a cycle of virtue. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 8, 2019
I don’t try to shame or punish people into creating the world I want but do my flawed but best attempt at being an example of the world I hope possible in hopes others will join me in living radical individualism, Forgiveness, Tolerance and consent. #Libertarian #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 7, 2019
No one should be coerced by force to placate someone else’s preferences and values. Although our willingness to choose to be tolerant and forgiving of how others use their life, liberty and property will play a role in whether others do the same for us. Choose #Liberty #AmLiberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 7, 2019
The #Libertarian message is accepting that dealing with your insecurities doesn’t mean hating, controlling or scapegoating others but taking control and responsibility of yourself to live and love yourself and others around you. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 4, 2019
It’s time we have leaders who don’t harness our insecurities to tear society apart through hate but channel it into inspiration of how we can each better our lives and the lives of others. #Amliberty #Libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 4, 2019
We all have anxiety, frustration and rage seeking somewhere to channeled into. Political leaders often influence how it gets channeled, typically into hate for some group such as immigrants, the wealthy or other easy targets.... #Libertarian #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 4, 2019
If you want to create a #Libertarian world you just can’t advocate for individual rights, you must be an example of how we can peacefully coexist because of, not in spite of our differences. Tolerance, respect and courtesy are your choice, make the wise choice. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 4, 2019
If we loved each other more we’d shoot, tax and rob each other a lot less. Love is always the answer, regardless the question. #amliberty #Libertarian
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 3, 2019
Immigrants, technology or the rich aren’t the reason for the plight of Americans but the barriers to entrepreneurship , empowerment and community created by government licensing, debt, regulations, tariffs, wars and overcriminalization. Change it, be #Libertarian. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 3, 2019
Doesn’t matter how much you reform how you punish people if you remain determined to punish them for things that should be within their right to do. #2A #Immigration #SexWork #DrugWar #LibertyIsJustice #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 2, 2019
If you can’t defend someone’s right consume plants or use their body for their profession as they wish then how do you expect to defend people’s right to defend themselves and travel freely. Rights aren’t pieces that can be parsed without destroying the whole. #amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 2, 2019
Doesn’t matter how much your reform how you punish people if you remain determined to punish them for things that should be within their right to do. #2A #Immigration #SexWork #DrugWar #LibertyIsJustice #Amliberty
— Alex Merced (@alexmerced) August 2, 2019
