It's considered impolite to say so, but thinking democracy is the best we can do is "end of history" thinking.
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I see a lot of “America is a republic, not a democracy!” talk from the right...particularly libertarians.
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Also, the use of bad science fiction memes to depict racial anxiety is getting old.
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Nancy MacLean has a good chapter on this in Democracy in Chains
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For libertarians, property rights always trump civil/human rights. Hence they'll list towards fascism the moment someone actually wants to redistribute whatever ill-gotten gains they're sitting on.
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Dumb. Property rights are human rights.
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Not surprising at all. I get the impression that a lot of the Ron Paul crowd that was so common on reddit and other such places have largely become alt-right.
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Original and real libertarians promote liberty, not property; insist on equal rights; often align with socialism; and have little to no problem with democracy.
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All true Scotsmen are libertarians.
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Libertarianism is fundamentally a desire to return to feudalism. "Libertarians" do not want to start with equal opportunities and resources. They want to start from where we are now.
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