The Empire of Democracy and the Democratization of Empire

Recently, it has become more and more common to believe that Democracy is the end-all of peace and freedom, and that if only such-and-such a country was a democracy, they would be free and prosperous and friendly with us. This often seems to coincide with a sort of quasi-egalitarian mindset, and often believes in an absolute democracy of some kind or another. It is also a common belief of those who support what I like to call the neocon "Empire" foreign policy. Back at the start of the Afghan and Iraq Wars in 2002-3, I heard this sentiment a lot in regards to middle eastern countries at large (even some that had/have some form of democratic representation), and now, as we seem to be on the verge of another pointless conflict with a country that has no desire to fight us (despite the national media and political hype to the contrary) in the form of an "intervention" in Iran (which is a polite way of saying all-out-balls-in-regime-toppling invasion), I hear this sentiment bubbling up once again. It's as if Woodrow Wilson and the British Empire at its height had children that grew up to be the modern American foreign policy. This crap just keeps coming back up, like that flu that certainly some of you are experiencing right now (and that I experience every time I hear a politician speak. My god! It's like spicy beef burritos and battery acid were having a war over who has dominance over my digestive tract...) In any case, this is all a short preface to an even shorter payoff. It is important to remember, whenever you hear, or god forbid, think this "democracy-is-the-savior-of-the-world" thought:
Government draws people who desire power--it draws them like a shark to blood, like a vulture to a corpse, and believe me, we (the citizens) smell like fresh pickings to them. These people, like the kidnapper and con-man before them, will do whatever and become whomever to get what they want. Let us not forget, Hitler was elected by a democracy.
We need to remember this when dealing with and voting in regards to our own country, and we sure as hell remember it in regards to other countries. Just because a country has a democracy does not mean that any decent person will be elected. 11 out of 10 times, that person that is elected will be the same, psychopathic power-monger that would have been in power in a straight up dictatorship; except that in this case, he is popular.