Pretty much all communist regimes have been dictatorships. What’s your point?
Pretty much all command economies**
There are ways to organize a system of labor that have not been explored or are in the infancy of being considered in the world. Many countries are engaging with more and more socialist ideals every day and they are doing so under current forms of democracy. The world is not binary, everything is a sliding scale with tradeoffs
Any government that claims to be something in between really just wants you to think it’s something in between.
You think existing government can’t manipulate you into thinking we are in a democracy?
You’ll never get anything accomplished then once everyone needs to agree.
The fact is that you were so brainwashed by the Red Scare that you don’t realize that the reality you were told is all lies.