Can the Private Sector Really Replace All Government Functions?
“Donald Trump will be a tyrant!”
So my neighbors claim. I live in Manhattan. Feel for me.
Yes, Trump says wild things, like riffing about “terminating” parts of the U.S. Constitution.
But I don’t think he means it. As Joe Rogan said to President-elect Donald Trump when candidate Trump came on his show, “You say a lot of wild shit!”
In any case, podcaster Michael Malice, in my new video, says not to worry, “We have so much further to go before we’re lost as a country.”
Malice knows the damage real tyrants do. He’s spent time in North Korea, and he was born in the Soviet Union. He detests political “leaders,” saying the best political system is anarchism: self-government without a central authority, or, as the artificial intelligence (AI) on my computer defines it: “a self-managed, stateless society based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid.”
Malice and I debate that. I’m no anarchist. I’m a libertarian. I believe we should be allowed to act as we wish, so long as we don’t hurt others. I accept the need for limited government, one that adjudicates disputes, enforces pollution control, and funds police and a military to keep us safe.
Malice says it’s wrong to think that way, because all central government is a problem.
“Security is like anything else,” he argues. “Should the government be producing books?…No. Producing helicopters?…No…a government monopoly makes no sense. But somehow when it comes to security, you’re OK with this. And then you live in New York and wonder why it ends up being the way it is.”
I’m not convinced that security is “like anything else.” A government monopoly on force at least means that we rarely have
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