Even if we go to America post-Founding, when things were just starting out, mob justice was very commonplace. Lynching wasn’t just something invented by the KKK. The police force didn’t need to be as powerful because serious crimes were addressed by citizens taking matters into their own hands. Child rapists for example, probably were not getting court dates in 1800, despite that “right to a fair trial” stuff.

On the macro, since the Enlightenment government has been on a never-ending expansionist path. Small government might be its starting point, but it inevitably grows because of liberal democracy’s nature. The people eventually realize they can get free stuff if they vote a certain way.

So Libertarianism can’t really be said to be a coherent ideology in the long term. It’s like being in favor of only the larval stage of a butterfly. But the larval stage has to give way to the next step in the metamorphosis. Really, Libertarianism is a good example of a Liberal evolution sub-category rather than some alternative which is often what it is proposed as. Furthermore, while it might have functioned reasonably with the population that existed in the 1700s, to think it would work with the current population who are so far removed from that time that those people are considered scandalous superstitious bigots, is madness. Libertarianism would not have quelled the riots in Maryland, in fact it might have made things ten times worse.

Bravo.

We see the progressives adopting the ‘black lives matter’ slogan and doing all sorts of questionable protests. Libertarians take each of these things on a case by case basis, and argue from principles. Of course, we all lose, because the media/USG is playing an entirely different game, which I believe is scaring upper middle class America into thinking they need a more militarized police between them and the more diverse neighborhoods. The military industrial complex must continue to expand, and the DMZ they build between you and the Latin American ghetto they’ve just created down the street from you is a promising new franchise.

One of the reasons why I am amenable to a monarchy or some sort of aristocracy is that they could function to keep idiots off the hill, while, hopefully, implementing principled policy.