“Democracy” could itself become a threat to the liberty

Ain't No Way Norway Is a Model for Democratic Socialism by Daniel J. Mitchell It’s nonsensical to argue that oil-rich Norway somehow provides evidence for the overall notion of democratic socialism. It’s sort of like looking at data for Kuwait and asserting that the best economic system is hereditary sheikdom. IF AMERICA IS “CAPITALISM RUN WILD,” THEN SO IS NORWAY. IF NORWAY IS “SOCIALISM,” THEN SO IS THE UNITED STATES. The Second Social Security Crisis Nobody's Talking About by Daniel J. Mitchell You have to wonder why so many young people are intrigued by socialism when they’re the ones getting screwed by big government! SOCIAL SECURITY IS A ROTTEN DEAL FOR WORKERS. Beware Bernie Sanders's Unsound Economic Arguments by Ahmed Barakat Sanders shifts between methodologically different scales and measures and drops context-free “data bombs” intended to shock and awe. His entire thesis is one opaque mixture of substance and hyperbole. THE SLICING AND MINCING OF COMPLEX DATA STRUCTURES DOWN TO A SOUNDBITE IS THE STOCK-IN-TRADE OF THE CLASS WARFARE INDUSTRY. A RANTING DEMAGOGUE FROM VERMONT IS CURRENTLY ITS LOUDEST SOLICITOR. Capitalism Has Achieved What Marxism Merely Promised by Marian L. Tupy In 1830, the workweek in the industrializing West averaged about 70 hours or, Sundays’ excluded, 11.6 hours of work per day. By 1890 that fell to 60 hours per week or 10 hours per day. Thirty years later, the working week in advanced societies stood at 50 hours, or 8.3 hours per week. MARX’S DISCIPLES FROM CUBA AND VENEZUELA TO SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE ARE COMMITTING THE SAME MISTAKE TODAY. Denmark's "Ghetto Laws" Show How the Welfare State Breeds Conflict by Dylan Moore When an ethnically homogenous country like Denmark builds up a leviathan welfare state, it becomes incapable of adequately dealing with increasing diversity. The only way to protect the collective social safety net is to divide society into two tiers: the indoctrinated and the outsiders. The proponents of group rights would rather trample the liberties of outsiders than embrace the individualism required for a successfully diverse society. AUTHORITARIAN CULTURAL HOMOGENEITY IS THE ONLY WAY FOR A VAST WELFARE STATE TO SURVIVE. In 1970, Milton Friedman Called for Unilateral Free Trade Rather Than Retaliation. We Still Haven’t Learned That Simple Lesson. by Mark J. Perry Milton Friedman’s economic logic and wisdom about trade are just as relevant, cogent, and convincing today as they were almost half a century ago in 1970. AMERICA STILL SUFFERS FROM A PERVASIVE AND SERIOUS NATIONAL DEFICIT OF CLEAR THINKING AND ELEMENTARY UNDERSTANDING OF TRADE. The 5 Great Crusades of Classical Liberalism by Richard M. Ebeling Understanding a little bit of the history of classical liberalism can help us better appreciate its continuing importance for freedom, prosperity, and peace. FREEDOM IS THE COMMON INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE LEFT TO US BY THE GREAT THINKERS OF THE WEST. In 2017, the USA Had the Largest Decline in CO2 Emissions in the World for the 9th Time This Century by Mark J. Perry Carbon emissions from energy use from the US are the lowest since 1992, the year that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came into existence. GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS FROM ENERGY IN 2017 GREW BY 1.6 PERCENT AND 426.4 MILLION TONS. What Part of “Brexit Now” Don’t You Understand? by Robin Koerner After signing the Magna Carta, King John immediately appealed to the pope to annul that pesky referendum on and limitation of his power. Pope Innocent gladly obliged; he would have made a good president of the European Union today, refusing to accept any of the national referendums that rejected the European constitution. NO MEANS NO, AND OUT MEANS OUT. How Democracies Turn Tyrannical by Richard M. Ebeling Friends of freedom, including many of those who strongly believed in and fought for representative and democratically elected government in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often expressed fearful concerns that “democracy” could itself become a threat to the liberty of many of the very people that democratic government was supposed to protect.  BOTH MONARCHS OF THE PAST AND DICTATORS MORE IN THE PRESENT HAVE DENIED LIMITS ON THEIR POWER TO COMMAND AND COERCE THOSE UNDER THEIR CONTROL.

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