Thinking back to my post of yesterday on Michael Lind’s argument that libertarian politics is dead, I think it follows if he’s right that what we have to look forward to (whether in glee or dread) is the gradual socialization — and increasing politicization — of the United States. A country that is further along that path than the US is Sweden and this article gives a depressing look at its high unemployment, lethargy, and domination by the government.
Bastiat called the state “the great fiction whereby everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” The inevitable result of a redistributive state is that people will squabble over a shrinking national output while industrious people and capital leave.
