Live Like a Libertarian

The best way to derail an opponent is to point out their blatant hypocrisy with regards to how they live versus what they claim to advocate.  The eugenics movements were easy to pick apart in this regard because even the modern eugenicists tend to not practice what they preach.  In the Gospels, this was Jesus’ biggest beef with the religious leaders of the times, as they tended to trap people in these rigid rules while forgetting the more important reason for those rules.
Unfortunately, when you do this, you end up opening yourself up to the same kind of charges of hypocrisy.  Of course, you may get charged with hypocrisy all the same, but it’s more likely to happen if you levy the charge yourself.  This is why is important that you practice what you preach so that you are not pegged as a hypocrite all that often.  In the end, we all have varying degrees of hypocrisy, it’s just a matter what is intentional hypocrisy versus incidental hypocrisy.
As a libertarian, I believe it is my duty to be as independent from the government as possible.  This is largely a question of willpower and your own willingness to forgo certain levels of comfort.  To be honest, it isn’t all that hard, it just takes careful planning.  For example, I don’t ever want to go on unemployment.  In order to ensure that I don’t ever have to, I have saved up about three months of expenses.  Once I am completely out of debt, I plan on increasing this amount to about six months of personal expenses, maybe more.  The idea here is that I don’t have go to the government to get money when I get laid off or just plain quit.
In fact, a lot of the welfare services the government provides these days can be avoided by simple and careful financial planning.  I recommend Dave Ramsey’s baby steps, but you can decide for yourself.
Welfare, however, is not the only thing that the government interferes with.  There are several cases where the markets are directly affected by the government.  For example, in New York City, there are rent control laws that have destroyed the housing market up there.  While the high demand would certainly contribute to higher costs of living in a large metropolis, the rent control laws have created a higher demand than what would have normally occurred.  If I were looking to live in that area, I would prefer to live in a place that is not controlled by such backwards laws.
The truth is, if we are to make any headway with eliminating the overbearing government regulations and the parasitic welfare state, we must be true to our ideals in our own lives first.  If libertarians want to eliminate the welfare state, they must not be a part of it, no matter what dire straits they find themselves in.  If they can avoid government regulations like rent control laws, then the should do so, no matter the cost.  It is in this way that we will stop them, not through the political process.
The political process, you see, does not desire change for the better, just change for the power.  If you want to create a freer nation in this country, then you have work at the individual level, not at the political level.  By living your ideals, you show the rest of us that our tired old ideals of liberty and property rights are not just pleasant words, but practical ideas that can be applied in everyone’s life.