You can’t get good policy without democracy

Put two policies on a coin and flip it. Half the time you'll get good policy. No democracy required.

Democracy grants input from a broad base of social perspective. But if that persective is polluted by propaganda and haunted by historical bigotry, you'll get out what you put in.

An apartheid democracy is less preferable than revolutionary anarchy, even if you didn't all get to line up at a voting booth and decide to overthrow the corrupt establishment

Non-democracy violates inalienable rights

If you can consistently violate a set of rights, they aren't inalienable. Pretending social obligations and taboos are written into the stars is what gets us some of the more destructive social impulses (abortion clinic bombings, white power marches, etc).