Dave Troy
1 min readJan 25, 2022

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The problem with that logic, though, is that it demands that people sacrifice social ties and attachments to localities, geographies, and institutions, which are arguably things that people have rights to attach to. If they do have that right, then they also have a right to democratic participation in their own local governments and a real say in how they operate.

Denigrating those rights in favor of what is arguably a sociopathic tendency to just “move away” is trading away a key thing that makes us human. So no, I don’t subscribe to that logic; I believe that’s a kind of pathology, and in general this is why the libertarian program can’t get broad traction unless it dresses itself up as Fascist class collaboration or various other kinds of get-rich-quick schemes such as we see now in cryptocurrencies.

I agree that government should be limited and responsive and local where possible, but folks like LeFevre believe it should not exist at all, and that’s really quite insane.

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Dave Troy
Dave Troy

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