On one hand, such articles frequently position Western democracy as Best-ern Democracy and keen observers will know it’s largely a conceit : the varying archaic electoral systems are maintained to serve existing Power structures, the best funded campaigns usually win, the elected representatives are then in hoc to Capital to deliver the policies Ut wants, rather than in hoc to the electorate that put them there.
And that’s just the legal flaws, before we get to corruption in its many forms.
On the other hand, perhaps we should not take the stability and peace we have for granted. Most of the West now has developed far right organisations, that are trivial to activate, operating as they do on populist dogma. A small proportion of them genuinely harbour racist agendas - but the majority have just been propagandised to the point they are motivated for violent insurrection or other acts of terror .