The thing that is conducive to a surveillance state is the centralization of power and information. In some cases this is a strong federal government, but Facebook is as big a problem as Sabre is as big a problem as Amazon etc.
But democracy is not more prone to the development of centralized power than any other system.
The issue today is large corporations as well. When Take Two can send private investigators to intimidate a youtuber at his home there is no way to have people's rights be secure.
>That being said, the experiment is on-going so we can’t definitively say Democracy is the best system
Whoever said this? It's directly contradicting Churchill's quote, so not really part of a response to what I said.