It's time to break the elite's grip on politics and assume some responsibility for the decisions that affect our lives. I don't agree with the idea that politics is too complicated for ordinary people. In fact I think society will benefit hugely from drawing on the wisdom and creativity of the British people - much better than depending on the sterile thinking of that peculiar and unrepresentative bunch of people who want to become MPs. Parliamentary forums that involve the public in law-making will be a big step in the right direction. Let's give them a go.

Secondly, and this is the terrifying aspect of ‘majority’ rule, what would happen when the majority makes a decision which affects a minority? I leave it up to the reader to fill in some examples, which exist today, and have existed in the past.

When one succumbs to majority rule, facts are irrelevant, and the outcome is invariably unpleasant.

Call me an enemy, I’m an enemy to the state. I have never given my consent to this or any government to rule over me. I am forced to follow laws made long before I was born and now I have to follow laws made by men and women I never voted for because others did. I’m told there is a class war, a war against the poor, a war against women, a war against minorities, a war against the middle class, a war against the white man, a war against the rich, etc. ad nauseum. Wake up! It’s been the same war from the beginning, liberty vs slavery.

The rulers vs the ruled, no matter what system is in place, that has always been the struggle. Yes, it is a class war, the political class vs the productive class. The fact that people now put their faith in government, and its parasites, the way they once put their faith in God is what frightens me. I put my faith in no man nor God, I am forever doomed to be ruled by mobsters. Why? Because of the bogus sentiment of democracy.

It would appear that democracy benefits the rulers, as democracy alone has provided the most consistent means for those formerly in power to sleep and die in peace.

And the same holds for the courtiers, nomenklatura, and apparatchiks. These sycophants need no longer dread midnight's knife and muffled cries, and the subsequent crowning of a new king. The elite and bureaucracy can retire to their farms and while away their passing years without fear — their riches and posterity intact.

As I see it now, democracy is not to the advantage of the demos, it is to the advantage of the power elite. Something to think about.

If you can't get rid of powerful people, they may be brilliant, but you don't live in a democratic circumstance, because if you can't get rid of them, they don't have to listen to you.

And that is the key relationship in democracy that matters, that the people in power have to listen to those they govern. And if they don't, you don't live in a free society.

That’s a dangerous compulsion. The libertarian movement — in both its political and anti-political manifestations — isn’t here to move to the center, it’s here to move the center. This incident graphically illustrates what happens when we confuse the two: Lean toward the center, and you’re likely to find yourself pulled right over the center line into enemy territory before you know what’s happening.

It's time and past time for libertarians to seize the populist hammer -- we're the only ones rightly entitled to wield it in any case -- from the Dixiecrat pretenders and start smashing the state with it.