The contractions of individual liberty that have accompanied "Progressive" expansions of democracy in America demonstrate that lesson to anyone willing to pay attention.
John Adams said that Americans' natural rights "Cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws." James Madison noted that democracy provides "Nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party." Alexander Hamilton wrote, "Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy." Thomas Jefferson asserted that "Elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but onefounded on free principles." Further, he wrote that "The minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression." In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.
A Constitution of limited, enumerated powers that included a Bill of Rights against government overreaching is clearly inconsistent with unlimited democracy.
As Friedrich Hayek noted, it is frequently the problem, as "All the inherited limitations on government power are breaking down beforeunlimited democracy." An ideal would avoid violating individuals' established rights.
In sum, market "Democracy" rather than political democracy, which is often focused on limiting or overriding market democracy, would serve Americans better in a vast array of areas.
Just as democracy means those who did not vote for a winning candidate must accept their political representation, they claim all workers must accept union representation services chosen by a majority of workers in an election.
"The eventual result, as with the United Auto Workers, is that none of the [current] unionized workers ever cast a ballot in favor of the union." Democracy has many failings as an ideal way to order society.
https://www.aier.org/article/neither-democracy-nor-union-democracy-are-ideals/
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