Modified guest commentary. The position of The Price of Liberty, under Mama Liberty and now the current proprietors, is unchanged. Democracy is an evil and degenerate successor to republics, and soon slide into mob rule and then tyranny (an autocracy of some type). We do not say that democracies are not tyrannical: it is still the old libertarian parable of the lamb and two wolves voting on what to eat for lunch.
Modern democracies have a very distinct engine driving corruption within them, and it’s not what you’d expect. There are many drivers of government corruption, of course, but this one empowers corruption in ways that others do not and cannot.
Democracies and democratic republics, (always just a slightly more tolerable flavor of evil government) especially now, involve professional politicians. An even greater evil than many alternatives.
And politicians, to put it very directly, are the winners of popularity contests. In fact, if we’re to be honest about it, modern elections might best be described as a type of beauty pageant, or a “popularity pageant.” Actually, it might be interesting to have a fancy Greek name for that, turning democracy into something corresponding to pageant-ocracy. (Rule by the most popular, the most personable!)
(So, does that turn your stomach like it does ours?)
Be that as it may, our modern rule-of-pageant-winners affects even the political parties which control the various contestants (by providing or denying the funding they need to win). The party overlords prefer winners to losers, after all. (Regardless of what these overlords, the men and women behind the curtain, want.)
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Alberta – shall be free?
According to Canada’s National Observer, the Alberta independence movement has enough signatures on a petition to force the Province to vote on succession on 19 October 2026, with 10%+ of the voters in the last general election. The “Stay Free Alberta” group that has circulated the petition is cautiously optimistic, both about getting on the ballot and having a majority vote for independence. It must be submitted to a government agency, Elections Alberta, to be counted by the 2nd of May.
We at The Price of Liberty support and encourage this election and a YES vote in October. Obviously, the political parasites in Ottawa and many of the provinces, and of course, the mainstream media (both in and out of Canada) are strongly opposed to this. The supporters, backers, and of course the 170,000+ people who have signed so far are condemned as right-wing extremists, conspiracy nuts, and of course the usual accusations of racism, fascism, and christian nationalism. No surprise there, of course.
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