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The whole point of a liberal democracy is that you replace "force" with individual political agency and consensus seeking mechanics. The state still maintains a monopoly on violence to some degree, but violence isn't a necessary part of administering that monopoly. This is like the original enlightenment libertarian ideal. The whole Ayn Rand revisionist school and now whatever the fuck it is that Jordan Peterson is on is what fucked up the terminology