• iopq@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well, you can’t run a libertarian country, that’s an oxymoron. A libertarian government only protects you from foreign and domestic threats. Segregation would not be possible to enforce because it’s against the freedom of association. Besides, a libertarian government wouldn’t have like laws allowing you to implement it because it would be extremely limited.

    Basically, an ideal libertarian government just has people executing their roles and it can only be run poorly. When you start making racist laws, it wouldn’t be a libertarian government anymore, so ideally there would be checks in place against that.

    But what would happen if the current government would be run by bigots? They would just repeal the Civil Rights Act. It can’t stop them since they run the country. Then they can pass segregation laws.

    And yes, we fought the Civil War against slavery, which is the libertarian view of society and enforcing individual rights. Again, a libertarian government would fight the same war because it’s still a government, and it still protects rights of citizens. We’re not anarchists.

    Brown vs. Board of Education would also happen, since a libertarian government still has courts that rule on things.

    I don’t understand why Americans won’t do the work the Taiwanese do. It’s one of the richest Asian countries, about as rich as Japan per capita. Not as rich as the US, but what kind of work do you think they do? Their major industry is semiconductors, they are making the iPhone chips and more. Americans also do this work, because TSMC has fabs in America.

    We should get rid of the electoral college. While we’re at it, make Congress get the percentage of third parties that got in the election. If Greens or whatever party get 1% of the total vote, they should get 1% of seats in Congress