I don't know about you, but I enjoy being able to openly criticize the government. I like being able to discuss both the good and bad parts of my nation's history(and there's quite a lot of both, seeing that I live in the United States). You can't do those things(at least to an extent I'd consider democratic) in China. Oh sure, they tolerate dissent...as long the dissenters don't remind them that hundreds of nonviolent protestors were slaughtered on June 4th, 1989 in Tienanmen Square.
Why? Because the CCP is an anti-free speech, authoritarian political party that holds China hostage under a police state. Now, I'm not trying to say that the American government has been exactly saintly over the years, because they certainly haven't. But at least they let you f*cking talk about it over here, and even have substantial change from time to time.
Authoritarian Communism is no better than Fascism. They are two sides of the same coin: oppression.