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Given enough democracy Capitalism will cease to exist.
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And there you have something the Federalist founding fathers were wise enough to be very concerned about.
Though even if brought to ruin through democracy's besetting sin, the possibility that the electorate votes itself the treasury, capitalism can still rebound even from getting the currency scrambled in this manner, as capitalism, and we must face it, is what humans will naturally do with each other, absent state meddling. On the other side of the coin, more than one mechanism for enforcing ethical behavior in economic transaction seems more than merely a good idea, but a positive necessity. Ringer's Paradox likely applies here.
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The neo-co[n] agenda is far too enamored of state exercised force to include libertarians.
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Not of the too narrow in scope variety of big-L Libertarian, no -- by which I mean the fanatical purists, who run no risk of ever acceding to public office nor of ever actually putting libertarianism into practice -- the self-defeaters! This is a bad habit of third parties. What I see the neocon agenda (I'm using the term for convenience, not minute accuracy of characterization) doing is moving global politics in a more libertarian direction, democracies being generally understood to be more libertarian than the autocracies they should supplant. I'm begging for the moment the question of how successful they've been at this as of yet; it seems suitable to adopt a protracted-conflict habit of mind.