That's the hardest part for people to accept, and until they do, they aren't able to hear anything else. It all starts with understanding what markmorrisjr just said.

if you don't have the choice to not participate, you don't really have freedom...

if I wanted to peacefully live my life away from the monster of empire, men in uniforms would eventually come for me to drag me back and cage me. That I'm "encouraged" to "vote" on who will be my jailor does not ease my sentence. We were never asked if we wanted to finance this abstract, corrupt social contract.