I think he's right except you don't have to believe that humans are fundamentally equal at all to want democracy. Humans are in no way equal. If humans were in

I think he's right except you don't have to believe that humans are fundamentally equal at all to want democracy. Humans are in no way equal. If humans were in fact equal, they wouldn't be able to evolve as evolution requires variability which is just another word for inequality. So when you want to promote cooperation over competition and you know that humans as any other DNA based life forms are fundamentally unequal, what you do is you give them equal deciding power so that noone can rise above the others.