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🛠️ The Self-Reliance Manifesto

By Adam Reiser
August 1, 2025 by
🛠️ The Self-Reliance Manifesto
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1. Born into a Party, Reborn into Purpose

I was born into the Democratic Party when it still stood for the people. I believed, and still do, that people sometimes need help. But help should be temporary—a lift, not a leash. A hand up, not a handout.

Over time, I found my truth in Libertarian values:

🧭 Self-reliance
🛠️ Responsibility
🌱 Creation over consumption
🗽 Liberty without prejudice

2. Teach a Person to Fish

If you teach someone to fish, they feed themselves.
They feed their family.
They build a business.
They pass it on.

Dependency limits.
Knowledge liberates.

3. We Were All the Same

I don’t see color. I never have.
Growing up, we were all the same: broke, but never poor.
Because poverty is a state of mind.
We had grit. We had drive. We didn’t wait—we built.

4. I Listen Without Prejudice

Every person has a voice. Every voice deserves to be heard.
Not because we always agree, but because we’re all human.
I’ll listen to a billionaire and a janitor the same way.

Because truth doesn’t care where it’s spoken from.

 5. I Believe In:

  • Dignity through work
  • Freedom through knowledge
  • Opportunity through effort
  • Healing through action
  • A future that we build together

6. Faith, Not Division

I believe in something greater than myself—a higher power, a spirit, a force that guides.
I respect people’s understanding of God, whatever name they use, whatever path they take.
To me, it’s all the same source.

One truth. One light. One creator, seen through many eyes.

Belief should unite us, not separate us.

This Is a Call.

To the broke-but-not-poor.
To those who don’t check boxes.
To the creators, builders, and truth-tellers.
Let’s restore common sense.
Let’s teach people to fish.
Let’s build things that last.

  

Truth matters.
Dignity matters.
You matter.

— Adam Reiser