>>508168452The US has a long history of destorying democratically elected governments (e.g., Iran, Guatemala, Chile) and siding with the worse dicatorships in the world (saudi arabia, Pinochet, Batista, Somoza, military juntas in Brazil and beyond).
Also a democracy can behave worse than a dictatorship in moral terms. Democracies have a long history of appartheid genocide, slavery and war crimes (north america, australia, new zealand, south africa, french algeria ...)