Which foreign country in today's world has a libertarian style govt?

Question

Are there any? And which foreign country would the GOP admire as a good model of what they want?
As for examples of what Dems might see as good systems, here are some examples: Canada, Norway, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Luxembourg, Italy, France, Ireland, Iceland,
UK. (Basically the rest of the civilized, indulstrialized world)
Yeah, you can say they're "socialist" but they're nowhere near Cuba, North Korea, USSR or Venezuela, so your black and white thinking is not intelligent.

Answer 1

Iraq, that was the plan anyway,

That is why the first thing they did was eliminate any government activity, fired all the Baath party members, abandoned all government offices and did not discourage all the looters. It was their idea that a true Libertarian government would just arise naturally like the theory said.

They tried something similar in Russia under Yeltsen, with similarly horrid results. Putin is trying to clean up the mess, but is increasingly finding that the only way is with traditional Russian methods. Not good traditions.

The Liberals from the FDR administration had been able to do the same thing in Europe after WW2, largely creating governments based on their ideology. Their experiment on most of the countries you mentioned worked out a lot better.

The Reason that there is a real difference between the Socialists in your list and the Communists like in N.Korea and Old Russia, is that the Communists were actually Fascists in socialist clothing, while actual Socialists just wanted to arrange society to the benefit of all, and not just those who could steal the most.

Communists, like other Fascists, just wanted to steal all for themselves.

All group activities, Government, global trade, any corporation, club, gang, etc., have the stakeholders who are affected and shakers who have the operational control of the enterprise.

If the stakeholders cannot hold the shakers accountable, those in control will give themselves more of the benefits and the rest of the stakeholders more of the costs. If they can the shakers will weasel out of what accountability there is.

What you call the system is irrelevant, only that the leadership is forced to not steal all the gold and give everyone else the shaft.

Answer 2

We have a name for true Libertarian Government.
We call them Failed States.

With no central power, power goes to those who take it and gangs, tribes and other thuggish groups emerge into the power vacuum

George Lakoff has a very interesting idea about human thought that will make a real Libertarian ideal Government impossible.

People have two mutually exclusive ideas about a family. One is the Strong Father who is the unquestioned authority, and is obeyed, even as each person competes for their own space, and the other the Nurturing Parent, who is focused on the welfare of the child.

The Libertarian Model is the Strong father model, and so is usually on the Conservative side, though like many children of strong abusive fathers, they fantasize a world ruled by free children.

Lord of the Flies was a good description of the results.

The other states you mention that are real Socialists are the Nuturant Parent model as described by Lakoff, While the Communists are the Strong Father figure again.

As Freedem notes in http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/17/02119/8186
The Generation of Monsters That this is a well researched Pathology that usually leads to a bad outcome, if for no other reason than those who had abusive fathers lack empathy and thus make bad predictions that folks will behave well when given a "Shock and Awe" spanking.

Answer 3

None, unfortunately. Costa Rica does have a sizable Libertarian bloc in its parliament, though.

I suspect many Republicans and DLC Democrats would like the U.S. to be more like Singapore, one of the more "business friendly" nanny states out there.

Answer 4

Why would I want to look at a foreign country as a model?
If Dems hate this country so much, you have the right to leave. You just listed a few socialist countries that will be happy to have a comrade like you.

Answer 5

Alabama.

Answer 6

Why would the GOP use any of these countries as a benchmark to a better government? Haven't we had to pull several of these out of the depths of disaster before?

Answer 7

I think that the Democrats just want policy where just about anything goes as long as they have total control. I don't think there is another country with a system like that.

Answer 8

why would americans want to copy some other crappy country's economic model?