Damus
wertyyryyr · 87w
Did you read "democracy the god that failed" from Hans-Hermann Hoppe?
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I did, but overall I think many of the shortcomings of democracy are more-so shortcomings of soft money.

I suspect hard money would make democracies better than their current form, and I think many people who favor non-democratic forms of government do so because they themselves expect to be part of the small elite that runs things or they otherwise have power in those non-democratic systems.
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wertyyryyr · 87w
It doesn't need to be there a government to run things, every service a govt does can be done by private companies. Plus on principle democracy implies forced socialization and theft by taxation on some level. I prefer a voluntary association of individuals with real private property.
Conza · 87w
That's literally the same in democracy https://youtu.be/Wa85VCiL_sM The useful collective term “we” has enabled an ideological camouflage to be thrown over the reality of political life. If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and unty...