Take a look at our Party’s web page.  At the top, like a bright marquee, we proudly announce our philosophy to all those who visit our site. It is simple. It is easy to remember. It is easy to understand. Smaller government. More freedom. We believe that when you give individuals liberty and responsibility for their own life the world is a safer and freer place to live. The best way to prove our philosophy works is when we use it and show it works. 

As we get closer to our National Convention many of the liberty blogs are filled with debate and ideas for the growth of our party. While it is healthy and productive for a party to examine its direction, the solution to our problems is really as simple as our philosophy. Because the solution to the problems our party faces is our philosophy. Smaller government. More freedom.

How do we solve the problem of a shrinking membership? Smaller government. More freedom. Our national party will grow when the local party’s grow. The best way to encourage local growth is for our national party to provide the tools (brochures, advertisement, etc) and then get out of the way. Our national party should serve the state and local parties, not the other way around.

How do we generate excitement and host great conventions while preventing fractional arguments and petty infighting? Smaller government. More freedom. More freedom allows minority voices to be heard. More freedom respects individual thoughts and expressions. Less government prevents the misuses of parliamentary procedures, which do nothing but discourage participation and attendance to our convention.

How do we solve the problem of dwindling donations? Smaller government. More freedom. Our party’s money will go further when we are spending less on our fixed costs. It seems unreasonable to pay more for rent of office space to run the governance of our Party then we put into tooling our state affiliates, local activist, and candidates.

Libertarian principles of small government and more freedom are the solution to the problems that face our cities, states and our country.  Those same principles apply to the workings of our own Party, which will grow and succeed as soon as we can show that our principled actions match our words.

Scott Williamson is a candidate for Regional Representative to the LNC. Williamson can be contacted at scott.williamson01@comcast.net