I heard it was shirk because you are making someone else a god by letting him rule with his laws. Mashallah that you never voted.
Even if I wasn't a Muslim, I'd be against democracy. I think democracy is a horrible system.
I really recommend a book called (in English translation) The Rebellion of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset. José Ortega y Gasset was an atheist philosopher and his book is a huge attack on democracy. It really helped solidify my opposition to democracy. I think his book illustrated that even from a secular standpoint that democracy is an inherently wrong idea. The idea that society should be ruled by the majority I think is crazy.
I think democracy is a wrong and horrible. I'm definitely against democracy.
I think there's an opinion out there that voting is haraam and I think there's another opinion that we should vote for the candidate who is the lesser evil.
I think the safest thing is just to not vote. My hope is that eventually people will just realize that democracy is an inherently wrong system.
Of course from an Islamic perspective, democracy is obviously wrong:
And if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from the way of Allah . They follow not except assumption, and they are not but falsifying.
-Surah Al-An'am
If we take that in consideration, how can we possibly think it's right to follow the majority?
And I know people might attack me for also taking into consideration non-Muslim critiques of democracy but I'm interested in the critiques of democracy that came from figures like José Ortega y Gasset, General Francisco Franco, Mussolini and José Antonio Primo de Rivera. I'm on South American social media and Franco is actually very popular amongst a lot of conservative South Americans. He's seen by a lot as a hero who saved Spain from Communism (of course the leftists hate him and the international media is super biased against him). José Ortega y Gasset is also a very well respected philosopher. So I like to cite them as examples to illustrate that being against democracy isn't some crazy position.
Salam sxb there’s no point to continue this discussion any further.
And I could careless about the French Revolution.
Okay but the French Revolution is where the two terms originated and so to understand the original meanings of those terms you have to go to the French Revolution. Why debate a topic you're not interested in?