/liberty/ - Excerpt from Wikipedia: Rushdoony believed that a republic is a better form of civil government than a democracy. According to Rushdoony, a republic avoided mob rule and the rule of the "51%" of society; in other words "might does not make right" in a re

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Anonymous 03/28/2020 (Sat) 12:36:58 Id: 44d852 No. 2452

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Rushdoony believed that a republic is a better form of civil government than a democracy. According to Rushdoony, a republic avoided mob rule and the rule of the "51%" of society; in other words "might does not make right" in a republic.[31] Rushdoony wrote that America's separation of powers between 3 branches of government is a far more neutral and better method of civil government than a direct democracy, stating "[t]he [American] Constitution was designed to perpetuate a Christian order". Rushdoony argues that the Constitution's purpose was to protect religion from the federal government and to preserve "states' rights."[32]

Rushdoony's work has been used by Dominion Theology advocates who attempt to implement a Christian government subject to Biblical law in the United States. Authority, behavioral boundaries, economics, penology and the like would all be governed by biblical principles in Rushdoony's vision, but he also proposed a wide system of freedom, especially in the economic sphere, and claimed Ludwig von Mises as an intellectual mentor; he called himself a Christian libertarian.[17]

Anonymous 03/28/2020 (Sat) 12:38:03 Id: 44d852 No. 2453

So opinions on this man?

Anonymous 03/28/2020 (Sat) 16:47:27 Id: 4fad05 No. 2456

>>2452
>Rushdoony believed that a republic is a better form of civil government than a democracy. According to Rushdoony, a republic avoided mob rule and the rule of the "51%" of society
That's in broad terms what the Founders believed as well. Neither of them were wrong insofar as republics being less worse than democracies. However, republics are still subject to the same degenerative incentives to which democracies are, and don't really solve any of the problems inherent in the system, they just slow down the rate of decay. The US itself only managed to hold on to its status as a "republic" for barely over a century before mob rule became the norm.

Like Mises, Rothbard (before he met Hoppe anyways), and other pro-democracy, pro-property rights types, it seems his heart's in the right place but in practice you can never square that circle. Republican governments inevitably become democratic, and neither is all that respectful towards property rights. If you want a government that perpetuates a Christian order, your only viable choice is an Apostolic feudal monarchy.

Anonymous 11/21/2021 (Sun) 10:33:46 Id: 7241ef No. 4954

Most people support the police state until they become a victim of it.

Anonymous 11/22/2021 (Mon) 06:54:15 Id: 3f28ef No. 4970

>>2456 >However, republics are still subject to the same degenerative incentives to which democracies are, and don't really solve any of the problems inherent in the system, they just slow down the rate of decay. That's all systems anon. Republics and democracies are still the far better choice. Unfortunately power has a tendency to centralise, you can slow it down though and perhaps even push back against it, but even people like Roosevelt knew about this. A libertarian is a man tasked with fighting against the flow of that as much as he practically can.

Anonymous 11/22/2021 (Mon) 07:30:13 Id: 88c090 No. 4971

Americans think that the US will be improved by expanding wars, increasing the debt, and adding more tyranny when the reason the USA is crashing is because the US has wars, is in debt, and has a police state. Americans used to say that they love freedom, but now they turn around and say they need the government to give them free Obamacare, build a wall, protect the US from Yemen, wiretap their phones, arrest people for feeding the homeless, stop farmers from plowing fields, force people to get rid of dogs, ban vaping, and torture suspects. Every country has the government it deserves.

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