Not anymore, certainly not since MBS arrived.
Its getting closer and closer to Dubai there.
Worse for you, but better for its citizens, which is the whole point of Democracy.
Its not democracy only when the west likes it.
And the average person there isn't as extreme as you think.
Of course, I meant "worse" from a Western liberal point-of-view, which I would think should be obvious here.
My whole point there is that Western liberals seem to usually think that if people in oppressive regimes only had democratic governments, then they'd magically turn into countries like Norway. So they try installing democratic governments in places like Afghanistan and then are shocked when these countries don't turn into clones of liberal Western democracies.