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 You are assuming that the means and the ends are not the same. But they are the same, they HAVE to be, both for directional improvement and for the ultimate goal of libertarianism. Every iterative improvement towards liberty comes from recognition of the fact that there is no legitimate authority and that one is morally obligated to minimize the initiation of aggression. Once one understands that, every rational thing one does will bring about changes in the right direction, whether big or small.

Years of experience and thinking about this has shown me that. You are dismissing this stuff on whim and "truthy" feelings. Fallacy.

Blind support of democracy without a thoroughly considered and inspected reason for it obfuscates the true nature of the problem and the solution for yourself and those who listen to you, and though you think you are doing this out of pragmatism, you don't actually have a logical reason to believe that it is more beneficial to society to support democracy.