You can have freedoms without suffrage. I'd much rather live in a society which protects my rights but disallows me from voting than the opposite. But I'm not the problem. You ask people like me to make rules to live by and you get freedom and prosperity. Which is how the USA got to be great. Then my ancestors decided we all had it too easy so we should give women and nonwhites the vote. Those groups could give a shit about freedom or America for that matter, and that's how you get here.
Alternative Hypothesis did a video about how actual dictators listen to their people more than legislators in a "democracy" do.
That's Hoppe's thesis as well. I'm not entirely sold on it, but what I do think is true is that subjects in a dictatorship probably have a much better idea of what's expected of them in day-to-day life than "citizens" of a Western democracy.
Of all the bad things that can be said about the Chinese government, at least they have a "China First" policy.
Our politicians definitely sold out decades ago. Unsure if it was to China at the start or they just happen to be the high bidder at the moment.
when politicians are decided more by organizations like AIPAC than by the american people what do you expect?
Israel didn't even get the most money out of the inexplicable foreign aid deals.
Capitalism lets people compete with big business. Politicians are only for sale when they are corrupt, and willing to serve marxist ISIS agents.
fuck off and die, communist.
You can have freedoms without suffrage. I'd much rather live in a society which protects my rights but disallows me from voting than the opposite. But I'm not the problem. You ask people like me to make rules to live by and you get freedom and prosperity. Which is how the USA got to be great. Then my ancestors decided we all had it too easy so we should give women and nonwhites the vote. Those groups could give a shit about freedom or America for that matter, and that's how you get here.
That's Hoppe's thesis as well. I'm not entirely sold on it, but what I do think is true is that subjects in a dictatorship probably have a much better idea of what's expected of them in day-to-day life than "citizens" of a Western democracy.