Thankfully I never went through the kind of indoctrination you describe in your second paragraph. The government obviously governs (are they called the government for any other reason?) irrespective of how democratic a nation-state is.

Democracy is indeed religiously perceived as a sort of panacea in the contemporary world. It is common to see democracy hailed as a value in the same way as freedom and equality. No longer is it merely a political system. It's a 'value' that will solve every political problem and that only stupid or evil people oppose. Even if democracy has problems, we automatically assume that these are problems with its implementation that can be solved simply by... more democracy. We must absolutely never question democracy as a theory.

This kind of democratic extremism is exemplified by authors like Fukuyama, for whom democracy is not only the ideal system but will also inevitably be the only system. When the whole world becomes democratic, the only problems will stem from poor implementations. So the world just needs to strengthen its implementations of democracy to achieve the elusive 'true democracy'™. Then it will be paradise!

Fukuyama's idea is of course the neoliberal version of Bolshevik delusions about communism. A perfect political system (neoliberal globohomo or Bolshevik globohomo) is inevitable. Political problems are only the result of imperfect implementations of a perfect theory and can be solved by erasing the imperfections in the implementation. The only people who oppose this inevitable development are trying to prevent history from unfolding and cannot possibly win. There will be minor setbacks (e.g. Trump) but we'll make it towards paradise in the end. The same thing can be seen in Islam—problems in the Islamic world are the result of impure interpretations of Islam, the solution is to purify Islam. Just double down on whatever you believe—democracy, communism or Islam—and there will be paradise.

Democracy has practically replaced God. Nobody calls themselves the 'free republic of' or the 'egalitarian republic of', but many continue to call themselves the 'democratic republic of'. As Fukuyama observed, almost everyone justifies their own political agenda using democracy. Socialism is more democratic than liberal democracy. Trump will repair the damage the Left has done to democracy. Biden will repair the damage the Trumpians have done to democracy. And so on.

I think this is one of the many strengths of the 'Far-Right'. It lacks a utopian delusion and only aims at collective survival. That's all we can really hope for—of what use are utopian visions to people living as hated minorities within their own land and with nowhere to 'White flight' to? Yet this is the inevitable reality without a complete U-turn happening within the next few decades. The only thing that matters is finding some way to get that U-turn to happen. Utopian delusions are for the many cowards who cannot stomach the simple fact that civilization is but a thin layer, the existence of which is anomalous and far from being some kind of permanent development. It is less taxing on the mind to take it for granted and assume that the only way that we can go is forward.