Liberal democracy has given us pointless wind turbines on every horizon, mass immigration, the World Economic Forum, femael suffrage, Corona lockdowns, and the EU. Herewith, a thread on why liberal democracy is so bad.
Political power has a will of its own. It wants a single locus. Liberal democracy is premised on the idea that you can divide power among the people, place it in different regime silos (the judiciary, the parliament), and keep it fragmented.
In practice this just means that power in liberal democratic systems accrues over time to suboptimal, dysfunctional, illegible, unknown organisations and systems - the bureaucratic institutions.
It is diffused among the members of these institutions, but united and centralised in the bureaucratic system as a whole, which over time displaces the political leadership as the entity steering society.
Cartoon villain elites like the ones we have have learned how to benefit from the bureaucratisation of political power. These systems are easy to buy off in small ways, and with enough time and money and persuasion, they can in time even be guided in one direction or another.
Nobody else, not even elected politicians, not even those of us on Thiel’s payroll, can do very much about the bureaucracy. They could - and some day, probably will - drive entire nations off a cliff, and nobody will be able to stop them. They have held us all hostage for 2 years
Like Communist regimes, liberal democracies are also universalising. They see themselves not as a rooted, national political entity, but as the one correct form of government that must be imposed across the whole world …
Ideally, there would even be one single world liberal democratic government. And so the universalising tendency is to erect broad international agencies like the EU.
They also want to include every last human within their jurisdiction, and also too (of necessity, probably) every last human concern. Automobile safety, the weather, dental hygiene, education, pets — all end up being matters of concern in liberal democratic systems.
A constant objection I hear, is that liberal democracy has lost its way. These are autocratic, anti-liberal institutions, policies, initiatives! We need to get back to the liberal nation state, everything will be fine.
This is like saying that jumping off a cliff is totally fine, it’s just hitting the ground that’s the problem. This is how liberal democratic systems, with their carelessness about political power and its nature, tend to evolve.
Power will end up united and centralised somewhere whatever you do. Better to start out with it all in one place from the beginning - in a place everyone can agree on. You want a government with command discipline, a clear hierarchy, and identifiable people in charge.
You want a government rooted in a people, a place, and a tradition. You can conquer and colonise, but the provinces get their own semi-autonomous local governments according to local tradition. Absorbing the world means you are absorbed. Fin.
