Libertarians do not believe in global interventionism like the Republicans and Democrats. Republicans like to call libertarians “isolationists” — a deliberate and simple-minded distortion of our views that unfortunately finds an audience among the masses more inclined to see the world in shades of only black and white. It’s the same line of thinking reasoning that has many NeoConns in the Bush administration and those among McCain’s advisers that can be summed up as you’re either with us or you’re against us — As if one must march lock-step in line with interventionist-Republican thinking to be a true American.

Libertarians are realists about meddling in others’ affairs: You will make enemies of your friends enemies. Unlike John McCain, libertarian minded folk don’t see every tinpot dictator as a Hitler. Unlike NeoConn thinkers who find bogeymen under every rock, the history of conflicts does not start with World War II and Hitler. We think far better lessons are learned from World War I, where hubris and Wilsonian idealism ended up devastating the economies of Europe and the U.S., as well as paving the way for Hitler, World War II, and the Soviet conquest of Eastern Europe and half of Asia.

These are all issues that are the subject of books, so we’ll it at that for now. But give the video a look above and seriously consider what it is you’re waving the American flag for this election. And ask yourself how you can protect freedom by quashing it under a police security state at home. Remember, America is the land of liberty and a limited government that confines itself to protecting your freedom — or at least that’s for what it was founded. Let’s return to that basic principle. Vote Libertarian!