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Libertarians support individual liberty and constrained government; they don't necessarily support democracy (though this does not necessarily imply supporting
by archgoon 7y ago
Libertarians support individual liberty and constrained government; they don't necessarily support democracy (though this does not necessarily imply supporting dictatorship).
https://reason.com/2018/11/10/libertarian-critiques-of-democracy-cant/ https://reason.com/2018/11/10/libertarian-critiques-of-democ...
From some libertarians perspective; it's more important to constrain the power of government than to do so in a democratic fashion. The proposed ways of enforcing constrained government vary considerably though.
EDIT: Apparently defining terms and explaining view points does not meet the high standards of hacker news comments. If I have misrepresented any perspectives my apologies.
- 0815test 7y agoDemocracy in the absence of individual liberty and constrained government simply doesn't work - it becomes corruption. While admittedly, few non-democratic polities pursue liberal values, the ones that occasionally did throughout history seemed to feature a similar quality of governance to modern liberal democracies. Their main (and quite significant) problem was instability over time, and that's what democratization mostly addresses.