Now imagine a larger tribe overpowers this smaller community, compels them to labor, exploits their resources, and forces them to obey their laws. We can all condemn such an action as immoral.

To prevent these occurrences, tribes assembled in more significant numbers, built fortifications, invested in weapons, and established laws to outlaw and punish such heinous acts. In other words, they protected the individuals’ and communities’ desire to be governed as they wished from others who would use their numerical superiority to dominate smaller communities.

However, in modern times, we have legalized the exploitation of minorities through voting. Our political system is at war with human nature; it is fundamentally unjust.

Democracy gives the mob back its ability to plunder the minority, denying them self-governance. The modern state keeps the ransacked minority in check with its monopoly on legal violence (police force, prisons, military, etc.), threatening force and fines against the non-compliant. Libertarian political philosopher Jason Brennan wrote, “In a Democracy, we are not volunteers, we are conscripts, we cannot opt-out, we are forced into it…governments do not merely advise us to follow their rules…they enforce their laws and rules with violence or threats of violence.”

Thus democracy indulges the worst part of human nature; the desire to rule others. It brings out the Saruman and Sauron within us as we seek to use the One Ring—or in our case, government power—to coerce others to do our bidding. Democracy is not progress but a return to the worst of our tribal origins. It is a corrupt, backward, and oppressive system. …

Voting is not about getting the government you desire; it is more about preventing others from having theirs. It propagates a mindset saying we must fight over Tolkien’s “One Ring to Rule them all.” We puritanically believe we are better than the other dumb peasants, those who do not vote like us. So we must vote to coerce them away from their self-governance and into our mold. Democracy is one big war of people denying each other self-rule.

We universally agree it is immoral if one person forces another to do his will when it is against their own. Unfortunately, this principle is forgotten when election time comes. If someone desires to control another, he can vote, or worse, make a good living by entering politics. Democracy creates an entire tax-funded system of bullying. It is not a loving but a mean system of governance.

We don’t allow the collective to decide essential questions because we desire to choose for ourselves how to live—subjecting more choices to the majority necessitates losing liberty and happiness. Loss of liberty is the automatic consequence of democracy, yet we uncritically accept it and even have the audacity to label it self-governance.