Western imperialist democracies can be bad (foreign policy, war mongering to extend their reach, racism, white supremacy) without autocracies and dictatorships

Western imperialist democracies can be bad (foreign policy, war mongering to extend their reach, racism, white supremacy) without autocracies and dictatorships being any better. It's just that there's a small chance of western democracies developing towards more progressive, scientific and less nationalist, religious and isolationist as younger demographics challenge the status quo, even if it takes multiple decades or even centuries for such changes to have gained majority support. People are often lazy, fearful, prone to group think and are easily swayed by charismatic populist preachers. Such changes are almost impossible without democracies because all opposition can easily be crushed before it reaches critical mass by state violence. (I'm aware of how western imperialists fight progress in the shadows via subversion, abuse of secret service powers, coups and disruption of opposition groups.) There are definitely better concepts than current democracies on paper but most haven't been tested in production/reality at nation state scale but without some sort of democracy in place, state power will reside with only the elite oligarchy, noble families and strong leaders that will do anything to protect their power and wealth. You don't stop writing tests and fixing bugs for your application even if you're aware that perfection is impossible to reach (give up on democracy because of its inherent flaws) because letting the rot fester will lead to collapse.