America has come a long, long way from Woodrow Wilson's desire to "make the world safe for democracy"...
The Education of a Libertarian
by Peter Thiel
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April 13th, 2009
CATO UNBOUND
I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.”
But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.
The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.
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I find both utopias equally absurd.
The United States turned over half of Europe to Stalin making it safe for democracy from Hitler by the way-even if you accept the naieve
premises as to US government/ruling class real motives that most conservatives and liberal-progressives do.
And before that, the British conservatives decided to appease Hitler to save Capitalism
Gotta take it back to the unjust Versailles Treaty.
Yes, that was a horrendous treaty. Keynes did what he could to point out the problems, to no avail.
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