No, no he got a point.
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The main function of the LP was supposed to be selling libertarian books, driving traffic to libertarian sites, etc. Ron Paul did that much better from GOP than the LP did. The real hope was in minority initiatives like the Free State Project, but that's been a massive disappointment...
It's nice to have some leverage over the GOP, especially in the primaries, but only to a point.
Helping commies win is a very bad thing... ?
Sorry for engaging in AnCap treason. I hope my thoughts did not violate the 'Non-Helping Commies Principle'. Frankly I'm just a minarchist with AnCap interests trying to see what it is all about.
Just remember that the two are not in conflict. Anarcho-Capitalism / NAP is the operation system and Minarchism is an app to run on top of it. People should be free to create all sorts of voluntary societies under NAP, but Minarchist ones are most likely to attract the top brains & capital, proliferate, and be most successful.
As in minarchists themselves are more successful or minarchism running over the ancap model will draw more successful people towards the government? If it's the latter, I really am not seeing the best in government. Usually the successful are in the market working, right?
Both.
As a zillion micronations compete, the top brains and capital relocate for their self-interest. It's reasonable to make such predictions based on clear historical trends, but no one has a "crystal ball". I am an empiricist, I want those experiments to play out, and everyone will analyze the data and decide for themselves. The Free Market / Evolution will decide...
There is a positive correlation between intelligence and success in a free market (or at least appreciation of the free market). There are still lots of exceptions, because a lot of high-IQ people make themselves dependent on government funding (teachers' unions, college professors, government-funded R&D). But they still need more high-IQ people in the private sector to pay the taxes, and to maintain the faith in government currency and credit. Those exceptions would decrease as the private sector grows more in freer jurisdictions, and government funding ultimately dries up.
When you have enough intergovernmental competition and people voting with their feet and wallets, any "government" then becomes "voluntary governance", just another corporation. Not that much difference between managing say a private cruise line and managing a seastead, or between Disneyland and San Marino.