[itsumoiru]

"The people" are not one. It's entirely possible to have an oppressive democracy.

[pif]

As long as it cannot be oppressive to the majority of the population, and until you are free to emigrate taking your belongings with you, calling "oppressive" a modern democratic country is a huge lack of respect to those people who lived their entire life with no choice at all.

[ClumsyPilot]

> you are free to emigrate taking your belongings with you

So Russia/China/Saudi are not oppressive? There are very few places that you can't leave, except maybe North Korea and Palestine