Oceania Has Always Been at War with Democracy

A few days ago the MSNBC pundit Mehdi Hasan jeered at the very idea of democracy, with a bogus quotation from Winston Churchill.  Yesterday:

Kissinger infamously said, “I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people."  But what, on Hasan's assumptions, is so bad about that?

P.S. Mehdi Hasan has shown a symptomatic confusion about democracy before.