There is a severe misunderstanding of what democracy is. The political babblers love to dress it up in flowery nonsense. “Power of the people,” they chant, as if chanting makes it true. Democracy, in practice, is just the art of getting 51% of the crowd to loot the other 49%.

Democracy isn’t freedom. It isn’t justice. It isn’t wisdom emerging from the will of the masses. It’s a popularity contest run by professional liars who sell emotions to people who don’t read past headlines.

In theory, democracy is about choice. In reality, the choice is between statist A and statist B—both pre-approved, pre-packaged, and backed by the same permanent ruling class. Your vote doesn’t control the system. The system controls your vote.

And the system has rules:

You can debate meaningless trivia.
You can argue about bathroom signs, flags, and slogans.

When it comes to real power—the wars, the money printing, the surveillance—those questions are already settled.

By people you didn’t elect.

The priesthood of democracy—the media, the experts, the academics—exist to tell you what you’re allowed to think. They don’t educate you, they program you. They exist to protect the illusion, not to reveal the machine.

There is a fanatical devotion to democracy because it flatters the masses while leaving real power untouched. The citizen thinks he’s the boss because he got a sticker that says “I Voted.” Meanwhile, the unelected power centers—the bureaucracies, the central banks, the surveillance agencies—roll on without interruption, year after year, regime after regime.

Ask yourself this: why does nothing fundamental ever change?

Every few years, people march into voting booths with fire in their bellies, convinced this time will be different. Every time, they get the same wars, the same inflation, the same censorship—dressed up in slightly different slogans.

This is not a coincidence. It’s design.

Democracy has become the velvet glove over the iron fist. It pacifies the population with the illusion of control.  The real genius of democracy is not that it gives you power—it’s that it convinces you that you had it all along. The ballot becomes a release valve, a ritual of obedience masked as participation. The more frustrated you become, the more you are encouraged to yell louder within the same broken system, but never to step outside it.

You are free to complain—as long as you remain harmless.

Try building an alternative. Try organizing without permission. Try creating wealth beyond their reach. Then you’ll see the limits of their “freedom.”

Now, even speech is under siege. Misinformation, they call it. Disinformation. Hate speech—meaning unauthorized thoughts.  Dangerous ideas. These are just new names for heresy. The heretics of today don’t get burned at the stake. They get demonetized, deplatformed, and digitally erased.

Democracy doesn’t protect the minority. It steamrolls them—unless they have lawyers, lobbyists, or leverage. Increasingly, it’s not even the majority who rules. It’s the people who count the votes, censor the channels, and shape the narrative.

In a true democracy, truth would not fear investigation. Dissent would not be dangerous. Voting would not be the highest act of civic virtue—building, thinking, creating would be.

That’s not what they want.  They want obedience.  They want compliance.  They want you to pull the lever, cheer for your team, and go back to sleep.

So, the machine grinds on.  Red team, blue team. Left, lefter.  Two wings of the same predatory bird.  Pick your predator.

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; The Anti-Capitalist Mentality