Liberty Differentiated from Democracy

1. Nine bums in an alley can democratically reach a majority decision to relieve an approaching wage earner of his wallet, but that doesn't make it right or just. Somewhere along the way the terms Liberty and Democracy became thought of as synonymous. They are not. Democracy is majority rule. If most people in a Democracy want slavery, then everybody will have to suffer under it. The fear of liberty is cowardice. The prevention of liberty is criminal despite "intent." A Democracy not based upon Libertarian principals is nothing more than a dictatorship of the morally inferior.

2. Implementation of natural order cannot occur unless the average individual in society has at least a rudimentary understanding of what works in the long term and what does not. Democracy can succeed in the long term only if there is a strong base of constitutional law based on Libertarian Capitalist principles. Such constitution must be the supreme law of the land and subject to none but literal interpretation. Without this there is only the immoral consensus of the mob.

3. "The only way that majority rule will be workable, is if the majority, as a rule, are willing to work." A Libertarian republic is essentially a Democracy enhanced by a Libertarian constitution, and functions with people being exactly what they are, in precisely the same way that a Democracy without such a constitution would function if most of the people were of the highest moral character.

4. In a totally free society the right to vote allows one to indicate his choice as to who can best manage things in accordance with known Libertarian principles. In a non-Libertarian Democracy the right to vote allows one to indicate his opinion as to how things might best be mismanaged in accordance with any of several competing unworkable collectivist theories. In a Libertarian society a vote is an expression of trust in a candidate's competence and honesty, rather than an expression of the voter's ideas about how to make policy, which would almost always be tainted by ignorance.

5. Representatives in a Democracy rule only by popular consent. It is important to vote Libertarian. The individual can at this stage however, do more to promote Libertarian revolution with an occasional letter to an incumbent representative than he can ever do merely by voting. Politicians know that for every dissatisfied voter who writes, there are five hundred who don't. Act now. In the USA: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil liberals and conservatives is that good Libertarians do nothing." (24)

6. Among the profane it is proclaimed that "If you are not liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you are not conservative when you are old, you have no brain." Among the wise it is remarked that "If you are not Libertarian when both young and old, you have neither a heart nor a brain."

7. It is power over others which results in unworkable societies. The true Libertarian candidate is not seeking power either for himself or for "the people." He is seeking to put an end to anyone having unjust or unnecessary power over anybody else.

The Atavistic Berserker, Dirk the Sun Warrior, yearns now only for the final conflict, that he may perish heroically after drenching himself in the blood of the vile enemies of our lives and liberty. "If I can't have total individual liberty by democratic means, then I will have it any way I can get it, even if it has to be over the dead bodies of all those who serve darkness!" Let us hope that the founding of Libertarian societies by democratic means will soon relieve Dirk of these feelings.

8. The short term vested interests now opposing worldwide liberty will eventually fall because their ideologies have no internal coherency or long term workability, and as such, constitute mere technical elements to be eliminated before the inevitable triumph of truth and justice. Because of the rapidly escalating consequences accruing to past mistakes however, we do not have the luxury of patiently waiting for people to slowly awaken. Conditions necessitate their immediate awakening. The one and only thing that can accomplish this is for courageous people to develop an active and imaginative commitment to the principles of World Libertarian Revolution, right now.