based on voluntary cooperation (free market) not force and violence and coercion
Yeah, that's also an untruth. Western capitalist societies are no more pure capitalism than the Soviet Union was pure communism.
Democracy is fundamentally coercive: the majority gets to rule, and everybody else lives with the result. Some of those rules force people to do things they don't want to do in the name of being able to live together: pay taxes, obey police, obtain permission to operate a motor vehicle. Those who don't obey are subject to force.
It's the worst system except for all of the others. It works best when there's voluntary cooperation, and there's a lot of it. But there are limits to it, and anybody coming to it thinking that they're absolutely free and without obligations and restrictions is going to fare very poorly. Such people force them to pass even more rules to codify what is and isn't allowed, and make the system worse for everybody.
Yeah, that's also an untruth. Western capitalist societies are no more pure capitalism than the Soviet Union was pure communism.
Democracy is fundamentally coercive: the majority gets to rule, and everybody else lives with the result. Some of those rules force people to do things they don't want to do in the name of being able to live together: pay taxes, obey police, obtain permission to operate a motor vehicle. Those who don't obey are subject to force.
It's the worst system except for all of the others. It works best when there's voluntary cooperation, and there's a lot of it. But there are limits to it, and anybody coming to it thinking that they're absolutely free and without obligations and restrictions is going to fare very poorly. Such people force them to pass even more rules to codify what is and isn't allowed, and make the system worse for everybody.