Vinney, could you explain more on the first point, please?

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I believe coercing someone into doing something against their will, that they didn't explicitly volunteer for, is wrong/bad/violating of rights/at the very least unlikely to lead to shared flourishing.

Democracy uses a lot of smoke and mirrors to get citizens negatively worked up about even worse forms of governance - fascism, communism, plutocracy, etc. - so much so that they forget the system they are living under is just as coercive and involuntary as any other.

briefly: democracy is just as nonconsenual as all other imposed hierarchies