Jeff Deist on Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed
Channel: misesmedia
Date: 2020-11-02

Why don't elections bring harmony and closure rather than ever greater political friction? Han-Hermann Hoppe explained all of the fundamental problems with mass democracy more than 20 years ago in Democracy: The God That Failed. 
Jeff Deist finishes his series on this devastating classic with a look at Hoppe's final chapters, critiquing conservatism, liberalism, and constitutionalism. Why do both conservatism and liberalism fail? (hint: democratic mechanisms). Liberalism is property, not majority rule, and all governments tend to attack rather than defend property over time. So what is the best way forward, combining a liberal economic program with the old conservative understanding of natural order? And how do we get there? Don't miss this discussion of Hoppe's most controversial and forward-looking book.

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