Leigh Sales, page-11

This is a difficult topic with no real answer.

Foe example - watch China rise and rise under Prez Xi - it is a Socialist consultative democracy.

Watch India rise and rise under PM Modi - it is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic.

Watch Russia rise and rise under Prez Putin (yes, I said WATCH) - it is a democratic, federative, law-based State with a republican form of Govt.

There was only ever ONE TRUE DEMOCRACY - that was in Ancient Athens. Note though that they excluded women from participating in the formal democratic process.