To be honest, I am glad I live in the democracy, because obviously it’s far better than living in Soviet Union socialism or Nazi Germany. Yet, I must say I am not a huge fan of this political system. Maybe you’ve heard the analogy of two wolves and a sheep voting what’s going to be for dinner. I like the analogy, because it goes straight to the point — no matter it was approved by a majority, it’s still can be unethical and hurtful decision. Also in democracy the decision is forced upon you, which means the system is involuntary. Voting is OK as far the rules are explained to you before and you agree with them. But it never happened, because, obviously, you were simply born into this system and you can’t opt out later.

Actually, have you ever noticed how much is democracy similar to capitalism in some ways? That’s ironic, because some democracy-lovers hate capitalism. In capitalism there are many private companies that use marketing and ads to gain an attention of the potential customers, or keep the current. They also compete, try hard to lure you to buy their products.

In democracy, there are political parties who also use marketing, ads, billboards and simply try to gain your attention, lure you to vote for them. And yes, they compete. So obviously, democracy inherited many aspects of the free market.

The majority has the strongest voice. Both in democracy and capitalism. No wonder, because that’s how this world works. In democracy, people vote with the voting tickets, in capitalism, they do it with money.

But here is the most crucial difference between capitalism and democracy.

Imagine the vast majority of people love super-heroes movies like Avengers and other Marvel products, while you totally hate them. But it’s okay because you can watch what you want. Maybe it’s documentaries about nature. It doesn’t matter you’re a minority. Of course, because you’re a minority, you’re less profitable for studios, therefore they produce more super-heroes movies and fewer documentaries about the nature. Maybe it’s more difficult for you to get the movie you want, because of the smaller demand. All in all, there is no conflict, you can watch what you want and the others can as well.

Now imagine there is an election and you have to vote. There are two political parties. Party X and party Y.

The party X promised to make all documentaries about nature illegal.

The party Y promised to make all super-heroes movies illegal.

So obviously you will vote for the party Y, because you don’t want the party X win. But too bad, because you’re a minority and there is no chance the party Y wins.

And PUF, the party X and all their supporters are your enemies now. They want to take something that is valuable and important to you. Something that is your strong passion and you live for. Now you hate them and you wish they all lost.

That’s the biggest problem of the democracy. It makes us enemies. It separates us and divides us. You can see it all around the world — people are angry, hateful and aggressive. In the USA, there is so much drama because of Trump. Trump-haters riot, scream, cry while Trump supporters think the liberals are just stupid, and they should just get over it. They lost after all. In UK, people are insane because of Brexit, milkshakes are thrown, Nazi crosses are photoshopped on the flags of the Brexit Party and shared on Twitter.

I am not naive. I know there always will be conflicts between people, because it’s just a human nature. After all, there are also conflicts between libertarians who label the ones they disagree with as: “Not real libertarians.” and so on. Of course, I won’t deny it. But I think the democratic system and voting makes it far, far worse.

I think this system is unsustainable in the long term and it gets obsolete. And then it will need to be replaced with something else. Something better. Let’s hope it’ll be something more capitalistic. Something that is not based on one group of people forcing their will upon others with coercion.

Anyway, the majority against minority thing is actually funny. I don’t agree that majority should decide about the lives of the minority. The numbers don’t make it legit and ethical. However, it’s still somewhat understandable when people think the minority should respect majority. BUT it’s not mostly the case, because I’ve seen many elections that end up with 49:51 ratio, so it makes it even more absurd, aside of the fact it’s just more fuel for the hatred and aggression.

I say, maybe it’s time to find something better and let this system die already.