The praise for democracy is based on a profound misunderstanding, deepened by relentless propaganda.  A so-called “victory” for democracy is often a setback for freedom.  It erodes individual liberties and distorts the notion of self-determination.  The reality is darker: democracy often serves as a vehicle for collective oppression.  It subjugates liberty under the guise of the “will of the people.”

Liberty demands private property and personal autonomy.  Without these, freedom is an illusion.  Democracy, in its fervent forms, tramples both.  It can occasionally align with liberty, but that is rare.  More often, it descends into mob rule.  The majority smothers dissent, laying the groundwork for a tyranny that destroys itself.  The descent rarely ends peacefully.

Few serious thinkers in history praised democracy.  Most either despised or distrusted it.  The Founding Fathers were not advocates.  They understood its danger—how it degenerates into mob rule.  Their aim was a constitutional republic, not a democracy.  They built safeguards against its destructive tendencies.

False prophets preach the virtues of democracy.  This serves their ends, not yours.  As Nietzsche said, “Everything the state says is a lie.” Democracy cloaks itself in the language of equality and freedom, but it is about consolidating power in the hands of those who control public sentiment.  Its essence is not free choice, but aligning wicked men around a collective illusion.

Democratic society is a herd in submission, misled into thinking it’s in control.  The elected representatives are more interested in power than principles.  Elections are contests of manipulation, won by those who deceive best.  Democracy, far from liberating, is the most efficient engine of tyranny.

J.F.C. Fuller highlighted this: “National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, the second a king, generally sane.  The command of a king is apt to be dictated by reason, that of a mob by passion.” Democracies fight endless wars, driven by the chaotic impulses of the masses.  They have no clear strategy.  The motivations are not rooted in reason, but in the frenzy of the mob.

Democracy thrives because it feeds the instincts of the herd.  The masses are seduced by its promise of power, never realizing it only pacifies them.  It divides society into factions, each seeking to dominate.  The pendulum of oppression swings back and forth.

In this system, decisions are not made by the wise, but by those who can exploit emotion.  Democracy’s true nature is emotional manipulation, where those who appeal to fear, envy, and hatred ascend.  The greatest lie of democracy is that it reflects the will of the people.  It reflects only the will of those who bend the people’s will to their own.

So long as this delusion persists, the masses will march obediently to the slaughterhouse, believing all the while that they are heading to a feast of liberty.