Democracy is not a dictatorship. If you'd ever lived under both, you'd understand the difference.

In a dictatorship, only one person's vote counts.

In a democracy, there are a lot of people whose votes count.

It may seem the same to you, but if you have to experience it you'd almost immediately see that it feels very different. I was a WHOLE lot more careful when I was living in a nation with a dictatorship. One slip up could throw away a lot of your life in a dirty developing nation prison cell.