I hate the way the word democracy is used today, often by both the left and the right. “The people voted for this. Who are you to oppose them?” I'm someone who believes in inalienable individual rights, which cannot legitimately be voted away, regardless of how many people support violating them. And what's wild is that both sides suddenly rediscover individual rights when opposing the other side's attempts at majority rule. I'd imagine both would agree that 51% of the population voting to enslave the other 49% wouldn't make slavery legitimate. Yet somehow that principle disappears when the majority votes to violate rights they personally don't care about. It's pragmatism over principle. Rights when convenient, democracy when expedient. At best, it's a system in which you sanction kneecapping others today, knowing they'll have every incentive to kneecap you tomorrow. A revolving door of mutually sanctioned violations.