The US Empire has never been a democracy, it's been a dictatorship of capital, and is now the world's dominant empire. The waning influence of western imperialism and the rise of the global south has led to dramatic improvements in developing countries now that the US Empire is more clearly in its death throes.

Hopefully we can have a socialist revolution within the empire to mitigate internal damage, but the rest of the world seems to be benefiting off of the US Empire's downfall.