Subnostr

Libertarians and right-wingers have much to learn from one another.

To a right-winger, libertarians lack the ability to make the changes needed by not being willing to use statist tactics to consolidate power. Libertarians are therefore too idealistic and ineffective.

To a libertarian, right-wingers fall into the same statist traps as leftists, which results in loss of individual liberties and increased government control, which backfires once power shifts.

There is a Middle Way.

Alan ₿ 1y ago

“That government is best which governs least.”

— Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

It is possible to have highly effective, yet minimalist governance.

This concept, known as a Watchman State or Minarchist state, was prevalent during the Gilded Age of America and the Victorian England.

In such a state, the government enforces the non-aggression principle to maintain an orderly, law-abiding society without interfering in business practices or daily life. Civilization tends to prosper under these conditions.

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