
Its hard to put a handle on what is supposed to be the best political system. Western capitalism uses "democracy" as a label to cover up unbridled greed where alternative "communism" is a label to cover up unbridled power grabs, both are flavours of unbridled greed.
While both have had their moments, both have also had some terrible clangers that left their populations with empty stomachs, pogroms, civil wars and other miseries. The arse is falling out of international rule of law where you have on one hand, coalitions of the willing (probably "shilling") trashing UN rules to invade other countries (Iraq, Yugoslavia etc ) and sabre rattling against the rogue province of China, Taiwan, as well as the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.
To address an ancient Chinese insult, "May you live in interesting times", sad to say we
DO live in interesting times.