This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, September 19th,

2022. I'm Caleb Brown.

In trying to shore up the so-called guardrails of democracy,

where do libertarians agree with and differ from left and right?

Cato's Walter Olson describes the guardrails of Democracy Project and what team

Libertarian believes are the most pressing long-term and short-term reforms.

So to what extent did these various teams choose short-term versus long-term?

Because I have predictions in my head, but I want to know what happened. Well let me start with team libertarian always the most interesting in my view which had me taking what was largely a short-term view of how do you keep from having another election crisis or succession crisis in

which people can agree who is elected and all the issues that are adjacent to

that and then the other two parts of the team libertarian were very much taking a long-term view.

You had Clark Neely talking about the decay of the institution of the and the dangers of losing, you know, the sorts of Republican liberties that we're used to in that, as the founders knew very well,

runaway kings and governments in the old world had often been stopped in their tracks by the power of the citizen jury to acquit people when they were trying to prosecute their enemies.

So there is a very real nexus there, which is nicely illuminated.

But of course, it's a long-term kind of thing

that he was talking about.

Likewise, Ilia Soman from George Mason Law School,

who said Cato adjunct wrote about voting with your feet so called and

that's one way of getting into the questions of localism federalism and

choosing your own government by if you're in the DC area you can choose to move

to Maryland or Virginia and get two different flavors aside from the DC flavor of local

governance and within each of those states you can move to places that have considerably different styles of governance.

And I was someone's point is that for most people in the practical world this is actually the most

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