Lolbertarian Party drops by to remind you it still sucks
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I think you underestimate what we'd be willing to do. It's not surprising, the party's nominees up to this point have behaved in a way that would reasonably give that impression.
Which is what? What tool other than government would you use to stop donors from lobbying and donating to politicians to keep re-creating these policies?
It's not about preventing the lobbying. It's about preventing the government from having power to create those policies. My lawyer has advised me not to be explicit about the means for that, but the 14 words involved do not start "we must."
The government is an extension of private sector power. To prevent it from having this power, you must limit the power of the private sector. Good luck fitting that into libertarianism.
We don't fit it in, because it's a nonsense. The distinction between the private sector and government is that the government claims the monopoly on initiating violence to enforce edicts. I'm in favor of decentralizing that role so that market incentives limit its effect.
I actually wrote a constitution which would trend toward what I'm looking for, based on the US constitution's framework. You need to set up explicit support for secession, with processes for how it's to be done peacefully, and that checks centralized power. The only way to escape the decentralization is a war of conquest, which is becoming more and more difficult in the age of gun and communications proliferation.