Let me make you aware of another issue. You see democracy as something positive, but you should not forget that this has not always been the case. There were times when dictatorship had a more positive connotation. Even from the point of view of the Americans, the term democracy had bad connotations, which is why they opposed the idea of mentioning democracy in the constitution. Although the Americans applied democracy to a certain extent, they did not want to use the term itself because it was clear that certain parts of society - blacks, Indians, etc.
Political systems vary in how much they apply the basic principles of democracy.
There are basically two approaches - the first one defines democracy only in political terms, and basically as the rule of the majority. They say that the way we treat our children, our husbands and wives, our parents, etc., is all part of our attitude towards democracy. Let us say that you have three children, and two of them want to go to Ramallah while the third does not. Institutions are needed to safeguard achievements, to limit and distribute power and to institutionalize the change of government. If you have a dictatorship, the whole system will collapse and change completely when the dictator is overturned.