"Well, there was one - S. Africa - and we helped to destroy it."
South Africa was not a democracy - it was an oligarchy.
S. Africa was as much a democracy as early America, and it was overwhelmed by immigrants whose ancestors moved to the country because of the great opportunities created by the entreprenuership of the Afrikanners and Britons, and then agitated for the destruction of the country through terrorism.
In slurring S. Africa, you slur early America.