{"id":22820,"date":"2017-02-18T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22820"},"modified":"2017-02-18T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T00:08:11","slug":"democracy-the-god-thats-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22820","title":{"rendered":"Democracy, the God That’s Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democracy, the God That’s Failing<\/a>\"ballot<\/h3>\n
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When Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe made his famous\u00a0argument against democracy<\/a>\u00a0back in 2001, the notion that voting was a lousy way to organize society was still radical even among many libertarians. Virtually everyone raised in a western country over the past century grew up hearing \u201cdemocracy\u201d used as a synonym for wonderful, good, just, and valid. It takes a great deal of unlearning to overcome this as an adult, and to question the wisdom of representative government installed via democratic mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2017, however, and the case against democracy is being made right in front of our eyes. Witness Hillary Clinton, who not long ago gushed about our \u201csacred\u201d right to vote \u2014 that is until her stupendous loss to Trump. Today she clings to the\u00a0specious nonsense<\/a>\u00a0that the Russians somehow influenced our election by planting stories and using social media, which if true would be an excellent argument\u00a0against<\/em>\u00a0voting rights. If the natives are so easily duped by a few silly posts in their Facebook feeds, why on earth is their vote meaningful or sacred?<\/p>\n

Other progressives like Michael Moore demand that Trump be arrested, presumably for treason. Left-leaning cable news pundits openly call for Trump to resign or be impeached. Mainstream newspapers\u00a0wonder<\/a>\u00a0whether he\u2019ll even finish his four-year term. The overwhelming message from the media is that Trump is a disaster, an existential threat that must be stopped.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just progressives questioning democratic outcomes. Neoconservative Bill Kristol tweets that he\u2019d rather be governed by an unaccountable deep state than Trump. Mild-mannered conservative moralist Dennis Prager, a reasonable and likeable right winger in my view, argues quite seriously that we are in the midst of a\u00a0second civil war<\/a>\u00a0with those who simply reject their electoral defeat. And the libertarianish jurist Richard Epstein, writing for the somnambulant Hoover Institution,\u00a0unloads a litany<\/a>\u00a0of grievances against Trump that would make Bill Maher blush.<\/p>\n

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Democracy, the God That’s Failing When Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe made his famous\u00a0argument against democracy\u00a0back in 2001, the notion that voting was a lousy way to organize society was still radical even among many libertarians. Virtually everyone raised in a western country over the past century grew up hearing \u201cdemocracy\u201d used as a synonym for wonderful, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14808,204,7844,1120,6370,12479,7617,694],"class_list":["post-22820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bill-bristol","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-jeff-deist","tag-michael-moore","tag-mises-institute","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22821,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22820\/revisions\/22821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}