Re: The One Party System (in Canada)
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The problem with this argument is that a result like that is decidedly not in the interests of the group that controls 33% of the country's GDP, so they would probably try to stop it from happening.
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Sure they would try, and they would fail. In the hypothetical scenario hypothesized by OP where there is massive demand for a libertarian no/low tax government, surely one of these latent libertarians would run for office, win, and install the system he/she and (apparently) everyone else wants. I don't see how one can espouse free-market economics one the one hand and hypothesis a total lack of response to demand on the other.
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The government and its firms have predatory pricing capabilities which actually are a barrier to entry. It happens with postal services and stuff like that, where the government can run a loss for a period of time to run a private competitor out of business, it can happen in other things.
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This is a totally separate issue. We are talking about governments allegedly crowding out opposing governments, not governments crowding out private competition.
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