An election is a criterion for truth not because it describes reality perfectly, but because we have chosen it to dictate our reality to us. We choose to agree with its results (if it is a fair one, not fraudulent) even if we do not abide its result.

That is what we mean by democracy, not that it must provide us with only what you believe to be true. It is why you are not a democrat, with a lower case "d". You are a fanatic. You actually are convinced you have the key to knowledge and that no one else does. I cannot think of a better description or definition of a fanatic than that.

Not only do you actually believe that my way of say, administering a health care system (to select just one example) leads inevitably to a brutal collectivist dictatorship, but that this ludicrous conclusion must also be obvious to our hypothetical alien visitor.

You are totally incapable of visualizing how totally absurd you appear to others. That may be Objectivism, but it is not objectivity.

You are a fanatic, Tom, and it will be your downfall, just as it was for your party this year.
You want engineering certainty, scientific precision? There it is. Its as good as you're going to get in any free human community. Freedom is not what you want, its what we can agree to.

Smiley has many faces, but they are all inscrutable.