I hope you have a very Merry Christmas this holiday season, regardless of whether you celebrate.

I don’t have a huge audience with this blog, but I much appreciate the people who do take the time to read.

On many holidays, I remind people to enjoy themselves and to not engage in heated debates with friends and family.  This is especially important in our time of Trump.

You probably aren’t going to convince any of your friends and family of your viewpoint anyway. And if you do, it isn’t going to happen by being really argumentative, unless the person you are talking to has a really open mind.

I think Christmas time especially is a time to act like a libertarian instead of preaching libertarianism.  You can demonstrate to others that you don’t have to be a statist to be a giving and loving human being.  I believe that the act of being a libertarian means being loving because you don’t want to initiate force on others for your social and political goals.  However, it is important to sell libertarianism through your actions.

You can be a libertarian and never give anyone a gift.  You can be a libertarian and not spend Christmas dinner with family.  You can be a libertarian and even be unkind to others as long as you aren’t using force.

However, if you want others to be sold on a message of liberty, then you yourself have to be a role model.  If you are a kind and loving person whom people want to be around, then they are more likely to be open to your pro liberty views.

Sometimes I write these things as a reminder to myself just as much as I am writing for others.

Merry Christmas!