Western liberals are indoctrinated into thinking that their system is flawed but a few reforms away from an idyllic utopia primarily because they do not give a shit about the Global South I think. They don't know or care how wanting the life was/is of basic necessities in the poorest strata of the global south under colonialism or neoliberal austerity. They have come up with bullshit numbers like multi-dimensional poverty index, where having a smartphone somehow makes up for not being able to see a doctor.

Multi party liberal democracies fail to provide their voters 2200 calories per day to eat without robbing formerly colonised countries while single party "freedom index" deficient autocracies at least give a shit about that and in many cases succeed.