You don't have to be a one-party dictatorship to have a free country. The US was originally designed to be a free country, and it was a constitutional republic

You don't have to be a one-party dictatorship to have a free country. The US was originally designed to be a free country, and it was a constitutional republic (not a democracy). The reason the US strayed from that was because, basically, the Constitution was too weak (and there were many generations of Supreme Court justices devoted to undermining it).