Democracy: The Worst Rise to the Top - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“Democracy is so to speak the guarantee that only bad people will rise to the top. And the more so the larger the country is.” Hans-Hermann Hoppe discussing why the worst rise to the top. This is an excerpt from: "The Errors of Classical Liberalism."

Source: LibertyAus YouTube channel.

Transcript:

If you ask yourself how do people rise to the top in a democracy, the answer is: you must be an intelligent, bad guy in order to rise to the top.

Imagine you will say: I will protect private property, I will not raise taxes, I will not engage in any type of redistribution, I will abolish all types of welfare handouts, what are your chances that you will rise to the top in a big country? The answer is, you can forget it. Democracy is so to speak the guarantee that only bad people will rise to the top. And the more so the larger the country is. That might not be the case in a small village of 100 people, where everybody knows each other, and they know how they acquired their position. But as soon as the masses of people are large enough so that nobody knows from whom you steal an so forth, the worst people will rise to the top.