there's this tendency to use democracy and liberty interchangeably 

conceptually, there's virtually zero overlap

quite possible to have no liberty in a democratic system
and to have liberty in a nondemocratic system

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

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