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Democracy is a system by which the anarchists punish us statists by sending their most marginally pro-social representative to be a representative of chaotic neutral in order to generate the surprise needed to steer the ship of self-organization. We democrats think that we are settling issues by a comparing crowd sizes, but the truth of it is that all of this happens in a clearing created by the silent anarchist majority.
You think the politicians are in charge? You look at this and you tell me we're not being punished?
The anarchists discipline their ranks by exposing their backsliders to elections, and thereby subjecting them to the agonizing and paradoxical combination energies that politicians provide: nerd and theater kid energy.