Declaring Your Independence, Step 2

Withdrawing consent. (No, it's not LARPing.)

Letting go of long-held beliefs is not easy—especially when nearly every other person around you still holds those beliefs. But consensus ≠ truth. Believing in a lie just because lots of other people also believe in that lie does not make it any less a lie.

Few beliefs are more widely held than the notion that democracy makes government ‘consensual’ and…