Republicans and Democrats are two factions the same political party which has a political philosophy of statism, forced collectivism, increasing authoritarianism, expanding government power and control over American's lives, and engaging in endless wars, bombings, killings, and interference in other nations' affairs.

 

The Libertarian Party is the true opposition to the statist Republican/Democrat uniparty.  Libertarians stand for maximizing individual liberty and freedom, removing government control from Americans' lives, free markets, and implementing a foreign policy of non-interventionism, peace with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

 

Democrats and Republicans agree that we should have a massive federal government ($7.4 trillion budget estimated in 2026) that increasingly controls Americans’ lives.

 

Libertarians want to dramatically and immediately reduce the size and scope of government, eliminate government control over American's lives, and maximize individual liberty and freedom.

 

Democrats and Republicans agree that government should use force against Americans to extract money from them, and want to tax the American people trillions of dollars a year through income tax, sales tax, tariffs, payroll tax, property tax, capital gains tax, and most insidious of all, endless money printing which causes inflation and which is now the state's favorite way to tax you.

 

Libertarians believe that taxation is theft, inflation (money printing out of thin air) is theft, and that all funding of government must be voluntary.

 

Democrats and Republicans agree that the United States should have a fiat currency system and should continue to print up trillions of dollars out of thin air, causing massive inflation and crushing national debt, and funding incomprehensible levels of wasteful spending.

 

Libertarians believe that the government shouldn't have anything to do with currency at all, that we should have separation of currency and state, a free market monetary system.

 

Republicans and Democrats agree that we should have a massive military industrial complex that costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year, military bases with troops stationed all over the world, interventionism, bombings, killings all over the world, protectionist tariffs, and billions in foreign aid sent to countries and wars all over the world.

 

Libertarians want a foreign policy of peace and free trade, an end to all military interventionism, wars, bombings, and killings all over the world.  Libertarians want to bring all troops home and have an efficient, defensive military stationed here in our country, and want to eliminate all foreign aid to all countries across the board.

 

Republicans and Democrats agree that government should have all-encompassing authoritarian control over our healthcare system including a massive regulatory apparatus, the FDA, medicare, medicaid, endless subsidies, and ever-expanding control over health insurance companies.

 

Libertarians advocate for separation of healthcare and state, a free market healthcare system, and the immediate shuttering of the FDA, a cruel organization which forcibly prevents dying patients from taking experimental medications that might give them hope.

 

Republicans and Democrats both agree that we should have ubiquitous government schools, that government should be heavily involved in primary education, secondary education, and universities, and that American citizens should be financially responsible for the education of other people's children.

 

Libertarians want separation of education and state.  Libertarians believe that all education must be privatized completely, and that it is the organization and funding of a child's education is the parents' responsibility.

 

Republicans and Democrats in Washington both support the Social Security status quo, an unsustainable scam that is also the pinnacle of American socialism.

 

Libertarians want individuals to have the choice to opt out of Social Security, and to move towards full privatization of retirement.

 

Democrats and Republicans in Washington both support the status quo, failed welfare state.

 

Libertarians want to replace the harmful welfare state with voluntary, sustainable charity.

 

Democrats and Republicans in Washington both support the drug war which includes incarcerating drug users in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

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Libertarians want to end the drug war.  Individuals own their bodies and should be free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, for whatever reason they see fit.

 

Democrats and Republicans in Washington both support massive bailouts and subsidies for failing corporations and mega banks.

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Libertarians believe in a free market economy, and that no company or individual should ever be subsidized or bailed out by taxpayers for any reason.

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On the environment, Democrats and Republicans have unfairly and unjustly stifled and suffocated the free market's attempts to build nuclear power plants in the United States, instead forcing the market to sources of energy high in carbon emissions or to new technologies that are not ready to power America.

 

Libertarians want the market to have the freedom to build nuclear power plants, which are the one and only technology we have now—and have had for decades—that can both power America and which produce virtually zero carbon emissions.

 

Even on controversial "hot button" issues such as immigration, abortion, and transgender rights, the separation between Democrats and Republicans in Washington is mostly rhetorical and almost never reflected in fundamental policy change. In any event, both Democrats and Republicans want to use the power of the state in each of these hot button issues to force their views on everyone else.  Libertarians want to keep government force out of these issues as much as possible if not entirely.

 

When zooming out, the divide between Democrats and Republicans in Washington is mostly based on perception, rhetoric, and clashing cults of personality. This theater of opposition always ramps up as we get closer to election time. Democrats and Republicans in Washington are two sides of the same coin, and their opposition is an illusion. Democrats and Republicans are two factions of the Statist uniparty.  Their true political opposition is the Libertarian Party which advocates for freedom from the government coercion and control uniparty politicians consistently and increasingly impose upon the American people.