1. You've been answered in full/refuted on your premise that we [posters here] don't accept election results.
but you don't support elections in the nations where they'd vote against our economic interests, that's conditional democracy
2. So you've had to move the goal posts to a new issue/issues. The non-democracies we support, used to support, or must now placate.
What do You suggest in Saudi Arabia? (prez for an hour)
if spreading liberty and democracy is the goal of america's forgeign policy, i'd pull the military assets out and say we'd consider bringing them back if invited back by a democratically elected government.
Activley foment/arm a revolution and maybe cut off 'our' oil for a few years destroying the planet's economy?
Or get along until they evolve.
playing in the domestic affairs of another sovereign nation is not supportive of american values. would you support a foreign entity actively persuing revolution in the US? furthermore, acting out of fear of what would happen to our economy if we don't have the saudi's precious oil is probably the dumbest foreign policy mistake the US made in 20th century, well second dumbest.
We act in our own interest... and Yours for that matter.
We did support many Dictators in Latin America during and Because of the Cold War with the USSR.
AGAIN. We must act in our own interest with countries be they democracies or not.
not sure how much of the cold war you remember or paid attention to. but that was a war against an ideology. if we have so much faith in liberty and democracy, why must we fight proxy wars against a nation with a different ideology. the cold war was once again the US fearing an ideology, and going to great lengths, up to and including trashing our ideals, for fear of an ideology. that's not conviction in your believes, this was the biggest foreign policy mistake of the 20th century.
Generally we are supportive ideologically to democracy, but some like Iran (whose legitimacy I question) and who is ultimately ruled by a 'Supreme leader' isn't a democracy in any case.
either you support and live by your values and ideals, or tell yourself you're being pragmatic and cutting your values short when they don't seem to be convenient. if you believe, as i do, that liberty and democracy is what is at america's best interest, you certainly cannot support the idea of oppressing a foreign nation so that they keep a leader that will act as we direct him.
furthermore, if you look into the history of empires such as ours, the english, the ottomans, the spanish, the portugese, the romans, etc. you'll see that their empires fall shortly after it becomes more expensive to service their debt than defend their empire. sun tzu gives alot of instruction about the dangers of spending so much resources fighting wars far from your borders. we're not heading into a good place, we won't make it out of this current situation until we're all willing to question what we think are the right decisions. just because the soviet union fell doesn't mean we were right to fight it in the way we did. just because several cave dwellers have died or stopped planning attacks on american soil doesn't mean we safer by keeping bases in 75 different foreign countries.