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TBO, it is because you might have a skewed view of what democracy is. You want it to be what it says it is, while democracy is something else.
It is the same with a lot of things, ie. religion. There is a Polish conservative politician whom I like to quote, he says:
"I am a Catholic. Not because it is about turning the other cheek. It is because it was the most expansively contending religion in history which never turned the other cheek, thanks to which our culture is still the most prominent out there and we are here and now"
Democracy is exactly the same. It is about many things, but not about empowering common people which it says it is about.
It is about giving them the illusion of power.Now, the parallel to Catholicism gets interesting, because spreading "American style freedom" is a replay of the same thing all over again: a crusade.
It is about spreading a dominant culture and pillaging. This time, it is a new religion you shall have no others before: democracy.Also this time, while remote countries get schooled (very interestingly, the same ones which were crusaded centuries ago), there is also a new pillagee in town: the taxpayer paying for it all, who gets anally raped unbeknownst to him.
But is is new? Pretty sure the common man paid for crusades in the middle ages as well...
- note: by Catholicism I actually mean a larger scope, Christianity.raf