I quote here for those who don’t X:
Modern democracy – we can see today, with a more sophisticated repertoire of concepts – is founded not on the consent of the governed, but on the dubious consent of the governed.
It’s not that you chose for all this government to happen to you. But rather that if you all, collectively, put in a coordinated effort over multiple years, you could change out your government. So you could make it stop – but you don’t – and that means it’s all your own fault, really, when people govern you.
Sure you whine about being governed, now and then; but you still show up to vote, don’t you? And you’re happy when the worse of two lizards loses the election? That proves you’re into it! And if you don’t show up to vote, that means you’re not trying to stop people from governing you at all; and we all know what that means about your real preferences, heh heh heh.
The system is not set up to give you, personally, a choice about being governed, or even a safeword that can make it stop. It’s set up to make it so that you theoretically could have done something to be governed less, but you didn’t. And so those governing get to smile, to themselves, about how you clearly want to be governed by them after all. You haven’t put forth a massive effort to vote both political parties out of office; and that proves you like it, being governed, and makes it your own fault when people govern you.
Anyone with a passing familiarity with the kink literature will recognize that species of trope: democracy is government with the dubious consent of the governed.