Old Guy,
Have been going through your democracy list;

Argentina – taken over by military coup, thousands tortured, murdered and disappeared. Perpetrators never brought to justice but are waiting in the wings to answer the call if ever needed again.
Australia – slaughtered indigenous population for their land. Now busy kicking out asylum seekers
Brazil – murdering small farmers in order to tear down the rain forests.
Chile – see Argentina (coup leader personal friend of Margaret Thatcher)
Croatia – participated in genocidal war, culprits never brought to justice.
Czech Republic – sex tourism, including child prostitution now rife since return to democracy.
Greece – see Argentina and Chile
Ireland – broke its own neutrality laws and is now allowing US war criminals (and their victims) to use its airports.
Israel – slaughtering Palestinian civilians in particular the citizens of Qana in order to push its boundaries as far as the Litani River. Hiding behind the dead of Auschwitz to justify its actions.
Mexico – rigging elections like their American cousins
Serbia and Montenegro – see Croatia
South Africa – apartheid system under democracy was guilty of impoverishing, enslaving and murdering millions of its citizens.
United Kingdom – has crawled up the backside of US and now lies dormant awaiting orders. Would invade the Isle of Man if instructed to do so.
United States – (where to begin) Has invaded and/or bombed nearly sixty countries since end of WW2 (mostly 3rd world) using chemical weapons such as Napalm, Agent Orange and Phosphorus.
Clandestine organisations interfered in the policies of hundreds of countries freely using terrorism, torture and murder.
Is tearing the environment to shreds in order to drive around in SUVs.
Uses world as personal petrol pump and invades countries when fuel supplies look like they are running low.
Freely and openly uses illegal imprisonment and torture against prisoners of war.
Election rigging now an established tactic (particularly in Florida – 90 odd miles from that nasty undemocratic Cuba.
Etc, etc, etc.
However all is forgiven because by the year 2020 will have wiped out its own population thanks to its insane gun laws.

Run this democracy thing by me again; didn't I read somewhere that the Nazis were elected?
By the way, not an English gent but a simple electrician trying to make sense of this nasty world – we don't go in for smoking jackets in the west of Ireland! However, don't let this deter you, you're bound to get something right!
Jim Carroll