The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy by Stuart Stevens

Author:Stuart Stevens [Stevens, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, American Government, General, Political Ideologies, Democracy
ISBN: 9781538765418
Google: loTEEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2023-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

In Hayek’s view, even well-intentioned state actions ended up causing far more human suffering than the market-based ills that they were meant to correct. Hayek was almost religious when it came to describing what the market could do when left to its own devices. He believed that the market was more important, and more beneficial, than the institution of democracy itself. A market was able to mediate all the wishes of everyone on earth. Laws and regulations were unworthy tools to use to deal with problems of the natural world, because the natural world was always changing. Laws were static; the world was fluid. Only the market could respond to the ways the world rapidly changed, Hayek believed.

Hayek is the patron saint of the Libertarian movement, and in many ways the Libertarian Party in America became a natural home for the Kochs. In 1980, David Koch ran for vice president on the Libertarian ticket and donated more than $2 million to the party, a huge amount for a political organization that was little more than a loose affiliation of oddball intellectuals and anti-government cranks. The 1980 Libertarian Party manifesto reads as if much of it could have been written by Ted Kaczynski:

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