If the decision-makers are elected by the people, it's not a dictatorship, no matter how many atrocities the nation commits.

You can have some gray area I guess, with unfair elections or whatever, but when the bad decisions are made by leaders who keep on getting re-elected in reasonably fair elections, we do not have a dictatorship.

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ClumsyPilot 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

Many dictators were democratically elected, this is not a sensible approach.

	▲	layer8 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The criterion is if the parties in power can be voted out of office again, which is very much the case in Europe (see the recent example of Hungary). A dictatorship is if this is not possible anymore.