Democracy's Error

On the surface, democracy might seem like an effective way to address the needs of a given society, providing citizens with the ability to vote on significant policy matters--whether directly or by selecting representatives.  While some forms of democracy are far more damaging and irrational than others, none of them are truly centered on truth and justice, the only things that can grant a government legitimacy.  At its best, democracy allows even major sociopolitical decisions to be influenced by arbitrary whims and consensus; at its worst, its irrationalistic leanings are blatant.

It does not follow in any way from the fact that someone will be affected by a political decision that his or her attitude towards that decision should be taken into consideration.  After all, a person can only deserve to be listened to if they are rational and just, and only a relatively miniscule amount of people can be legitimately called those things.  To insist otherwise, a person must rely on non sequitur fallacies, saying that it follows from merely being a human or being affected by a decision that a random person should be able to control at least a part of the political world.

Operating in a manner that is aligned with truth, not honoring the wishes of the people, is the goal of a sound government.  In order to be a rational or just person, one must often disregard or outright war with the delusions of academia and the general populace alike, for intelligence has never been possessed by more than a select few at a time.  Democracy's error is that its tenets treat the ability to influence politics (whether or not that influence is sound) as if it is a right possessed by every human, irrespective of that individual's intelligence, commitment to truth, or moral character.

It is impossible for anyone's perspective to matter unless that perspective is in alignment with reason.  Short of that alignment, a person has no intellectual authority (the foundation of all other forms of authority), much less the right to receive any respect at all (from social peers or governments) beyond the bare minimum required to not violate their human rights.  Since the vast majority of people are unintelligent and hypocritical, it follows that the majority of humankind does not deserve to have a political voice one way or the other.  Democracy of any kind, no matter how accepted it is within a particular culture, accomplishes nothing but some degree of subversion of a rationalistic society.