If North Korea is undemocratic, what is the USA?

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Why does everyone think I am defending America, I am not. I.just like democracy. Glad there is voting in this system.
- My apologies then, repeating that you love democracy, voting, etc in what could be construed as an antagonistic manner under a informative post about North Korea could be taken as a "baiting" tactic done by most libs common to the spectrum of the West.
  
  I see that. My original post was just criticizing the memes conflation of leadership choice type with benefits that the civilians have. A democracy will not always be better for the people than a dictatorship, but most the time it will be better.
  I mean this meme is basically pro-authoritarian. I don't know what they were trying to go for but I feel like that's not it.
  
  What we're giving you is factual evidence that an authoritarian system to prevent an overthrow of the dictatorship of the proletariat is actually great as it prevents capitalist roaders and other subversive entities from betraying a revolution that hundreds of thousands died for.
  China and Cuba were pieces of this evidence that you ignore when you say "more democracy is always better". In a global capitalist economy, it is not, because of an exploitative economic system that upsets and destroys the benefits of "liberal democracy".
  
  The problem is corruption is a part of any political system. Democratic/Authoritarian. It doesn't matter. The reason why Authoritarian systems are not as good a Democracies for the people is that in Authoritarian systems there is one point of power, the leader. If that person stops caring about the people, then that becomes a big problem. Another revolution will need to happen.
  In a Democracy the power is with the people (If done well. The US news got bought out by the bourgeoisie thus dooming us). It is harder and more expensive to corrupt that.
  Given we don't find a way to ideologically stop capital, it will always be corrupting whatever government. Another revolution will always need to happen. It just takes longer for Democracies to decay.
  
  You misread my point. Authoritarian systems with democratic checks n balances (One party, governed by the working class) is a concept that is fundamentally incompatible with liberal democracy as you view it since it operates under the basis of exploitative capitalism.
  It is not the "authoritarian system" that deprives an individual of power but rather the economic system fostered and used by the state in acts of violence. In a democracy, power can easily be coopted by that economic system so one must be constructed to prevent a take-over. That requires authoritarianism. What form? Can vary and depend.
  We have found a way. It's communism. China and Cuba are socialist. In the brief period of their existence they are more successful comparatively. Even the USSR had a similar caloric intake to the average American and had a higher home-ownership rate. What does that tell you?
  
  I mean an authoritarian system does deprive people of power. By definition only a few people have power in authoritarian system.
  You can have corruption in governments that aren't capitalist. It's just a matter of knowing what people want and how to manipulate them.

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