Democracy is the Better Way to Go

The events of the Twentieth Century taught humankind a valuable lesson: that one-party rule leads to torture and mass killing. Assuming that torture and mass killing are things to be avoided, then libertarians must reject the view espoused by many LP members that the Constitution of 1787 did not set up a democracy, but rather what amounts to a dictatorship of one party, a party that could appropriately be called the White Male Landowner Party. The founders may have sincerely felt that factionalism was to be avoided, but they naively failed to realize that they themselves constituted a faction, and the prohibition of competing factions in the interest of living in harmonious, unitary bliss is something that humankind has found to be far worse than multi-party democracy.