Why Is Liberty a Hard Sell, Compared to Democracy?

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

The Fairy Tale We are All Sold:
It is only proper that the constituents of any given territory, most of whom have been ingrained from birth that they belong to the one secure, collectivist leviathan, be compared and contrasted to those that pass down the myth of Santa generationally; the perpetual fairy tale meant to produce artificial happiness at someone else’s expense, and with the sinister knowledge that the truth will be revealed one day that we’ve been duped into false premises and an impossible situation.
And never discount the fact that they are gullible much like the young child who accepts candy from a stranger: as long as there is a potential benefit to something at no cost to the recipient, the unseen costs often come in the form of the molestation and pillaging of the individual to satisfy the new master(s) desires.

The system is functioning as was intended, with no lack of talking points to ensure the entity is portrayed as necessary yet amiable.
Yet, many of the so-called adults in the room assess these circumstances with little concern for irony. If it is true that most sane individuals would prefer to not have their belongings seized through intimidation and to not partake in measures designed to promote anxiety and discomfort with the purpose of extortion, why on the other hand are real life instances of theft not looked down upon, but instead encouraged as an act of patriotism?!
Behind the jovial and supposedly motivating idea of sacrificing ones wealth to attain happiness for all, is nothing more than telling Bob from Alaska that he didn’t really need those new snow tires on his truck to continue his job as a truck driver, and Allison from Florida who started a business but didn’t really need that new air conditioning unit in her place to mitigate the intense heat/humidity, and to make her kids feel more comfortable while she bites the bullet in the form of self-employment taxes.

There’s No Shame in This Fairy Tale

It is clear that the illusion must be maintained around the idea of everyone pitching in to help everyone else, because then we relieve ourselves of the need to feel shame for partaking in such a system. If we’re all in this together, then my actions and your actions are one of the same, despite the choices of mine being more grim and coercive than yours, or vice versa.
As for who gets the short end of the stick, this is not to be focused on. In our system, we are all guaranteed our own shortcomings, to make up for the advantages we receive from the projects invested in by the State, such as our ability to travel around, communicate and cooperate with other people, and form profitable relationships with people we can provide value to.

Despite the fact that these things happen only in the absence of government, and not in the presence of it, is again to be ignored.

Everyone Is Naturally Dangerous, Except Those Who Seek Power Over You:
The delusion that individuals inexorably are lead down the path of greed and corruption , and that therefore we should put a small ruling class of individuals in power over us to prevent such outcomes, sounds about as asinine as also giving them the gun to point back at us and ensure we are “able” to comply.
But in fact, the only thing democracy hasn’t failed to do is to provide us with these two specific facets described above: A sizeable amount of the population who elects incompetent overlords (and often warlords), who then are given guns to cheerfully remind us that “we” elected them and their laws are passed by “the people”.

What actually lies beneath this facade of State power, which is supposedly made up of “we the people”, is not only the general inability to recognize that politicians aren’t “us” in any sense, but that the idea of democracy in practice has been a failure even in the many instances where it’s deemed a success. How can this be so?
Before even diving into the core arguments against the idea of being “ruled by the people”, the opposing theorist’s arguments do not hold weight with regards to any known definition of the word.

Without looking at a nearby dictionary, is a democracy supposed to be representative of the majority of the population, or the minority of the population? Few on the left nor the right would deny the former to be correct, but just to be sure we aren’t straw manning our opponents, here is the definition from the Webster’s Dictionary:

1a: government by the people; especially: rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government

And from the Oxford Dictionary:

1. A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
   1.1 A state governed under a system of democracy.
   1.2 Control of an organization or group by the majority of its members.
   1.3 The practice or principles of social equality.

The overwhelming theme is clear among these definitions from the most used dictionaries, that the will of the majority and the will of the people coincide to form the same ideal. Despite whether you agreed to these new circumstances, the jury rests, and the fate of people rests in the hands of the State and its goons.

Why Is Liberty a Hard Sell, Compared to Democracy?

The liberty lost to democracy took its form in the lack of existence of a democracy, at least in the confines of the United States. We have established the definition of “democracy” as being an area that is ruled by the majority, and the highest turnout election among eligible voters was the election of Rutherford Hayes in 1876, with a turnout of 81.8%.

With a popular vote count of 8,322,857 among both candidates, and with a population of between 38,558,371and 50,189,209 between years 1870-1880, the math becomes clear and unavoidable. A measly 21.58% of the population would have elected Samuel J. Tilden into office, if not for the fact that Hayes won the election with 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184 electoral votes.

Liberty is hard to sell, because we live in a “democracy”, that was never actually a democracy, but also in which people fervently defend the State and its “democratic ideas” on the basis that they voted and are making a change by voting. The false narrative is of course hard wired into generations over time by uncles, coaches, teachers, or anyone that can gain of moral superiority over someone by claiming they aren’t active enough in the political process.

It’s not that your vote doesn’t count, or that the constitution wouldn’t have been more effective if it adhered to expressly delegated powers instead of the evil and perverted “implied” powers the legislators concocted through their lenses, but that in 241 years as a “nation”, we have been deceived into believing we live in a voluntary society with a majority rule, when in reality we have allowed the roots of government to extend far past the surface into the tyranny of the minority in the form of oppressive rulers, elected nevertheless by minority in the form of the eligible voter population.