And these people have clearly never read any theory relevant to the topic, because then they’d know bourgeois democracy is not democracy at all.
“To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament--this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary- constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.” -V.I. Lenin, State and Revolution
The way that liberal democrats view the world is just straight up fantasy. Makes it hard to interact with a lot of these folks ever since I’ve noticed how thoroughly indoctrinated people in the west are by liberal democrat/capitalist ideals.