When you apply the concept of democracy to your personal life, it sounds preposterous.
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Take music for example: Suppose people voted for what music everyone must listen to. Taylor Swift gets the most votes, now everyone has to listen to her and only her.

Now suppose you don't like the outcome:
You didn't vote - People say "You don't like listening to T Swift? That's too bad, you should've voted!"
You did vote - People say "You don't like listening to T Swift? When you voted, you were agreeing to live with the outcome!"

If you're going to have a democracy, I think a direct democracy makes much more sense than a representative democracy. However, I think democracy as a whole is absurd.