Crybaby Libertarians

In response to my previous, a reader writes:

Allan,

I can’t believe that you just revealed yourself to be in favor of a police state. 

Sad, indeed.

-A Reader

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Mr Stevo,

You should also go on record as supporting Trump’s participation in the slaughter of Palestinians, the kidnapping of the head of state of a sovereign nation, the killing of people on the high seas, the coming attack on Iran.

Donald Trump loves two things:  prestige and Donald Trump. 

I still can’t believe your pro big government, pro killing, pro Gestapo police estate was published at lewrockwell.com.

At least there’s still Ronpaulinstitute.org to go to.  And thankfully I’ll never see your name at THAT site!

-A Reader

First, A Note To All Men:

Never to be whiney. Do not to be a crybaby. You may have the right ideas, but if you are whiney, you lose and get pulled into nonsense.

One reason the left is losing is, because they can’t control their emotions. They can’t control their emotions, because many had absent or weak father figures. They especially can’t control their emotions since the President is a firm father figure.

Plenty on the right are growing dissatisfied with Trump for being a pedophile protector. That’s a reasonable reason. Others on the right are circulating the weakest and often debunked mentions of Trump from the Epstein Files. That’s just lame.

You see, when you turn whiney, you lose track of reality a little. Then you tend to seek to reinforce your whininess with more of the unrealistic. I wish it weren’t that way, but that’s how it is.

This is important: When you get whiney, you tend to fill in the blanks with half-truths and even lies in order to convince others that your whininess is just. It is never just to whine.

If you are a truth teller, be careful of how the needless drama of whininess tends to pull one toward even more needless drama, such as outright lying.

This triggered reader comes up with lame issues to justify his whining, essentially losing himself in the whininess: Palestine, Venezuela, Iran, and the police.

How easy it is to lose oneself in the constant propaganda and narrative that surrounds us. No one needs to turn whiney. It creates another handicap in grasping reality.

Why I Don’t Hate Trump For Palestinian Deaths

In 2004, I first visited Jerusalem. It has only become a more complicated place, and it was complicated long before. In October 2025, through no intention of my own, I was in Jerusalem during Trump’s visit, not far from the Israeli Parliament. I am no zionist, but I understand that Jerusalem is important for a thinker in this era to understand and to understand well.

Though I seldom mention it, I am well-versed in the cultures and current affairs of that contested land.

As such, I have no difficulty saying this: It is February 2026, bombs — at an unprecedented rate — would still be dropping on Gaza had Trump not shown up for a day in October 2025. Some aggressors in the region — and supporters of aggressors — openly hate Trump for that.

Dear reader, I believe you spoke glibly in your emotional attack on Trump. There are many things Trump does wrong. This one is a hard one for a peace-lover who understands the region to blame Trump for. I think you are coming from an uninformed and overly emotional place in blaming Trump for Palestinian deaths. I will not join you in doing so.

Why I Don’t Hate Trump For Venezuela

Over the past thirty years, I have been an election observer in many US states and in several foreign countries. Based on that experience, I quickly disagreed with how the 2020 elections were handled. The government of Venezuela shockingly seemed involved — I believe our elections were stolen partly with the help of Venezuela in 2020 and by US intelligence.

I awaited some repercussion from Trump.

Though I am well-read on what took place in Venezuela, I do not think I actually know much. Nonetheless, I do not like that foreign intervention. Dear reader, I think you are needlessly getting worked up at this stage. I will not join you there.

I remain patiently observing the situation.

I acknowledge that I may end up being terribly wrong.

A Divide Between Realism And Idealism In Libertarian Thought

There is a divide in libertarianism between realism and idealism; the divide does not have to exist.

Think deeper. Be as realistic as possible. Try to know the truth as hard as you can, as uncomfortably as you can.

In the life I live, Trump is a night-and-day difference from any Republican or Democrat President. They are not all the same. The two parties often put up similar candidates. But the idea that the two parties are the same has become an unreliable bromide. This is especially true after candidate Trump, essentially running as a third-party candidate for the Republican nomination, took over the White House as an unwelcome outsider, and is in the process of taking over a major American party.

Trump is different. Maybe his masonic handlers have allowed him to be different. Maybe his zionist blackmailers have allowed him to be different. I do not know. He is different.

He is measurably different in my life in a way no other President has been, and it was that way even when he was only a candidate.

Why I Do Not Hate Trump For Iran

What is he doing in Iran? I don’t know. But it’s uncomfortable for me, too.

I know I’m happy Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, and John McCain are not President right now.

Trump does not appear to be the same as those people.

The indication from his first term is that Trump operates with much bluster, and is certainly not anti-war, but he also promotes peace in international affairs, though certainly not calm.

I am not going to join you in being in a state of outrage on this matter. Maybe outrage is deserved. I do not know.

Why I Do Not Hate The Police

Do I support the police state, as you claim? Yeah, sometimes. You see, I understand America needs Jesus. I also understand America doesn’t have Jesus. This divide leaves us in an unpleasant predicament.

I grew up in a place affected in an outsized way by macro-trends. I wish it weren’t that way, but the place I grew up in doesn’t have the luxury of nonchalance the way CNBC commentators do. It is working class.

Broad acceptance of Jesus once held things together. What we have is Jesus replacement #1: “Defund the Police!” And Jesus replacement #2: “Back the Blue!”  I am not in either category, but I know that a neighborhood that doesn’t get policed turns into a mess. That is the case today. It was not the case in 1930, nor in 1950, and in some places it is still not the case, but in most of America it is.

A neighborhood like the one I grew up in needs the police. It is a stop-gap measure. What we really need is Jesus, but absent Jesus and absent the police, everything falls apart.

I live in daily reality that recognizes how nice idealism is; I also know how thankful I am for cops that occasionally strong-arm a thug and get him to stay out of the neighborhood.

Lew Rockwell And Ron Paul — Planted The Seeds Of Our Era’s Victories

Sir, with all due respect, I insist that you speak more respectfully of Mr. Rockwell. For thirty plus years, he and his team have operated one of the most important websites on the internet — not intermittently, but consistently and daily. It is not the most visited, but it is influential because of who visits. As one example — if not for Rockwell’s work, millions more would have found themselves totally lost during 2020, when getting lost was a matter of life and death.

I have the highest respect for the work of Lew Rockwell. I also have the highest respect for the work of Ron Paul, and that begs some questions:

What part of Ron Paul’s writing says I am to hate and disown a President because I have serious problems with his White House? That I am to never say anything positive about him? That I am not to advocate within his White House for my views?

I’ve read everything I’ve been able to find from Ron Paul for nineteen years, and I’ve never once seen that attitude present in his work.

Please Do Not Cry

Dear reader, please don’t cry when those who are not 100% befitting your definition of intellectual purist end up on LewRockwell.com. It is a place for hard conversations, and I suspect as long as it exists, it will remain a place for hard conversations. Also, please do not insult the work of the Ron Paul Institute by claiming it is a place only for those who are 100% befitting your definition of intellectual purist.

You must have had some kind of miserable weekend to 1.) seek to deplatform me from LewRockwell.com because I am not your lockstep spokesperson, and 2.) to challenge the veracity of Mr. Rockwell because I am not your lockstep spokesperson. In my world, John Taylor Gatto, Hans Hermann Hoppe, and Ludwig von Mises all fit under the same intellectual tradition, though they each have uncomfortable views the others might not agree with.

How To Rescue Your Mind From The Inhumanity That Purism And Perfectionism Can Painfully Foment In Those Around You

In 2002, or thereabout, I was forever broken as a purist when I read and eventually internalized the Hinlicky Rule:

You shall not criticize the position of another…until you can state that position with such accuracy, completeness and sympathy, that the opponent himself declares, ‘Yes, I could not have said it better myself!’ Then, and only then, may you criticize. For then you are engaging a real alternative and advancing a real argument. Otherwise you shed only heat, not light.

Through its persistent application, I’ve come to realize how frequently wrong my views that I get worked up about are likely to be.

People disagree with you. That’s okay. People even disagree with your favorite thinkers. That’s okay too. It doesn’t make them an enemy.

Venezuela doesn’t mean a thing to most Americans (But it sure could have if Trump’s meddling backfired — and it still could backfire).

You brought up stupid Venezuela to try to put me in my place, because I was happy that I, a Californian, only need to pay gas starting with a 4 and not a 6. Let me be happy about that, will you?

And unless you, too, are living in downtrodden California, you, too, could be happy about paying $2 for gas and not $4 — instead of being a misery spreader, because Donald Trump isn’t as perfect as you.

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Please don’t be a misery spreader, and please don’t be a sad sack. You’re probably one of the most politically educated around you, but that education doesn’t mean much with the wrong frame of mind — and your frame sucks.

I received maybe a dozen emails from that piece and some agreed, some disagreed, but all walked in victory. You were the only one who did not.

Your frame sucks.

Your mindset sucks.

Stop it.

I welcome your disagreement.

I hate your frame, because I know the harm you do to yourself and those around you.

Stop it.

If libertarians can be convinced to have a crappy frame of mind, America can be ruined.

Dear reader, please don’t be discouraged and certainly don’t discourage yourself, and most of all don’t discourage others.

Please read 1 Corinthians 13 today, please read John 3:16, and never again let anyone take your victorious frame from you.

You and I might disagree — that’s okay. But let neither of us come from anything but a victorious frame of mind.

Life doesn’t have to be the way it is for you.

Dear reader, I love you man, and I don’t want anything but victory for you and those around you.

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