* I am not a libertarian. I believe that governments are useful and necessary, and we should fight to democratize and improve them rather than abolish them.
Governance is more than useful. It's absolutely necessary, but that doesn't mean a monopoly provider of governance is necessary or more useful than the alternatives. Democracy can only reduce the tyrannical aspects of governance to the degree that it reduces its effectiveness overall, and it's not even very good at doing that. Democracy is the dominance of the minority by the majority by definition.