"How many liberal democracies can you point to that have gone the way of totalitarianism, mass imprisonment, and genocide?" How many 'liberal democracies' have

"How many liberal democracies can you point to that have gone the way of totalitarianism, mass imprisonment, and genocide?" How many 'liberal democracies' have built international surveillance dragnets? How many have secret prisons all over the world? How many spend more militarily than the rest of the world combined? I wouldn't say the US is exactly your run of the mill democracy these days.