You can say that about any policy you do not like. We live in a representative democracy where we elect individuals to make decisions for us.
Democracy would not work if every single person refused to accept the outcome unless they received every single thing they wanted. Democracy is about reaching a consensus amongst competing interests, not everyone being strident and absolute in one's own position and not accepting the outcome.
What we find here is an excuse which serves to set aside the responsibility of the elected representatives in a democratic representative republic to exercise virtuous prudence... in effect the assertion is that because Representatives have been elected, THEY ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE SAME VALID REASONING WHICH SUSTAINS INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY without regard to the specific form of governence which is charged with defending it.
Similar to that of Jillian, the imperative becomes the Representative Republic itself... and NOT the principles on which that Republic was formed... the implication being that the Republic is the end, by which the means served to promote; and nothing can or could be farther from the truth.
Democracy can only "WORK" where a virtuous people, seek to serve through that Democracy, Democratic Representative Republic or other forms of democratic government; the principled imperative for which it was designed to promote. Which is to say that the Democracy rest upon a virtuous people who understand the principles which the Democracy was designed to serve and will use their influence to promote those principles, thus sustaining the culture which designed the democracy towards that end in the first place.
Where the people who comprise that Democracy do not possess the knowledge or understanding of those principles, or who have come to reject those principles, then that government no longer serves such and where there remains present, those who DO understand and who DO respect the natural and immutable principles, it falls to them at some point to CHANGE that government and REFORM those who would contest its natural sustenance.
The US government is, as noted by Toro, a Representative Republic which is designed to promote and defend the Constitution which established that Republic. A constitution which was written and designed to PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL from the power of a government from usurping their means to exercise those rights.
The gentleman in the video who has become the subject of the OP was precisely correct in every one of his many points which described the absurd detachment which the US Legislature has established for themselves... He is precisely correct, that there is NO MEANS WITHIN REASON which could possibly argue that these detachments from their responsibility could POSSIBLY SERVE A SUSTAINABLE FREEDOM...
And where those detachments PREVENT the means of the sum of individuals which comprise 'the people' to bring that legislature back into alignment with their constitutional responsibilities... inevitably it falls to the sum of those individuals to do so by whatever means is available to them; and to initiate those means in the order which prudent judgment provides.
Revolution comes in many forms.. but in every revolution sweeping change is its function and as such, once it begins, where it ends is always in doubt... and because of this, it is the tendency of most people to tolerate the intolerable... up to the point, where the intolerable earns it's stripe and the anxiety born in the doubtful outcome is preferable to that which left such as their only remaining alternative, to that which they could no longer accept.
These are immutable principles; they're not subject to the whimsy of a projected popular consensus or the threat of unspeakable power... they're not impressed by haughty rejections born of some faux intellectual enlightenment...
They are the principles of nature; and while one can fight the inevitable effect inherent in nature, one cannot long withstand the inexorable forces which nature's inevitability assures.
So I suggest you govern yourself accordingly and in so doing, be prepared to accept the inevitable consequences of your actions... which I should note, in closing, come to us all... Except the consequences of actions born of principled virtue are commonly recognized as the
benefit of such... in contrast to the 'consequences' negatively associated with it's antithesis.
