there's this tendency to use democracy and liberty interchangeably 

conceptually, there's virtually zero overlap

Spot on. democracy is a process, liberty is a condition, to sum it up one doesn’t guarantee the other

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good point, the system doesn’t have to be one-size-fits-all to achieve that outcome.

it's actually not unidirectional either
you don't necessarily need that specific process for that condition