Thanks, but imho we do have as much as a democracy as Russia was a communist state (the latter was a dictatorship, and it remains unclear whether this is always the outcome when trying this - the same as if capitalism has to be the way it is - we will probably see the whole economy fall, after globalization is more or less established).
We say the government has been elected by us, but who did we directly elect, and are the wants and needs of the people being followed by the politicians (also what real possibility does a politician have, to overrule its own secret services and their clandestine actions, let alone know of it ?)
And why should the old grand mother in the black forest have the same voting authority (one vote) like a well-studied Dr. of political, state sciences or philosophy ?
Lots of questions, it's like electing cholera or the plague alright, but which better system would you or Hoppe advise ? Alternatives ?
Aufgeklärter Absolutismus ?
We pay more taxes than in the middle ages, and we are still reigned by people who think of their people as dumbs and 'Stimmvieh', using propaganda like the media (Fox News etc.) to condition and influence people.
But what bothers me most - you said close to Mises ? Is the Austrian Mr. Mises not the one who said that National Socialism would be the same as socialism, along with a lot of other nonsense the US libertarians so like to embrace ?
I know how all right wingers embrace this idea, but it unfortunately is nonsense.
Apart from America, which other nations are part of his 'equation' ? Where e.g. is Great Britain, what about the colonies etc. ?
Ok will read something more of Hoppe about it and then protest properly
