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 No. I’m arguing that someone choosing the ruler for someone else is immoral. I don’t have the right to do that to you and you don’t have the right to do it to me. 

Your premise is that it’s ok because everyone in the system agreed to it, but that only really applies at the beginning. I didn’t choose the current system.  I was born into it. I didn’t choose the current population of politicians. A small handful of people living in a few swing states did and the rest were gerrymandered in by carefully choosing their voters. 

I’m not trying to be pedantic. I fully agree that this form of government is a lot better than many other current systems in place around the world. But if I am going back to base principles my statement stands.