Capitalism comes first. The Boston Tea Party was first. Then came the Republic several years later. So first we need 100% gold backed money in banking. Montana mines gold and large quantities of silver.There’s job possibilities there. I think a policy of pushing other countries to become democracies first is backwards. We should be helping them to become capitalists first.
Yes, 500,000 people can be spread out over many state and accomplish much. But I think one state at a time with a very good probability of results is far better than the scatter approach which lowers the probabilty of success anywhere. And if 500,000 people commit to move, how many do you think really will. If just one state does it and suceeds economically, others will follow quickly. But that first state is going to cause an uproar in the rest of the country and in D.C. There may be serious danger. You will need a strongly committed community as tightly interwoven as possible. (We’ll need a lot of internet communications with back-up server farms.)
Montana has a huge wind resource. Environmentalists could set up wind farms galore and with so much open space they could research ecological communities forever.
Libertarians naturally want to be entreprenures. Learn a skill in addition to your job. Baking, shoemaking, butchering, greenhouse flower growing, software and internet should do well, just about any skill will suceed.
I agree that lower populations tend to be more desirous of freedom. I think our history shows that. And our founders understood that when they set up a bicameral Congress, so that, in a pure democracy, the densely populated areas could not always out-vote the sparse ones.
Montana even has its own “gun lobby”, the Montana Shooting Sports Association. Makes you hope that even with a growing population, it won’t turn into another Big Apple too soon.
During France’s revolutionary period whenever people wanted to topple the government they would set up barricades in the major cities to stop government agents from going around, essentially bringing the state to a grinding halt. Then one of two things would happen, the government would cave and grant the revolutionaries what they want, or an army unit would be sent in to blow away the barricades using cannons.
500,000 people means 10,000 in every American state. 10,000 cars in each state capital can set up the ultimate nation-wide traffic jam-spontaneous roadside barbecue event, bringing all government functions to a complete stop.
All that’s needed is an organization and the relevant demands.
That’s such a great idea…does anyone think that there might be 500,000 libertarian activists or close to it between here and Ron Paul and the tea parties and other places?
Stop participating in banking! Since banking is inflationary, a large contraction of a large group of folks would also cause a contraction in the money supply. Fractional reserve central banking, is theft against it’s consumers. If you participate in current-banking, then you are condoning a violation of property rights.
Invade a completely hopeless, run down, and destitute country and then proceed to free its economy. Freeing Haiti, for example, could finally bring it around to a modern economy. In fact, freeing Haiti would be enormously beneficial in showing that a black nation can lead the world in economic growth and prosperity as long as it follows free market principles. That and it would be a useful tax haven for Americans and Europeans.