Ask them to define what "democratic" means. Any defensible definition should include:
It means the will of the people is reflected in government decisions, and
It involves some mechanisms (for example, elections) to get the will of the people to the political leadership -- it's not a benevolent dictatorship where the dictator just happens to enact popular policies.
Everything else is essentially a method of "perfecting" those two aspects. Get them to agree on those two big points, emphasize that Cuba is democratic by that very reasonable standard, then play the inevitable game of whack-a-lib with whatever stuff they throw out there (oh, it's effectively one-party control, like most local governments in the U.S.?).
You might shift them a bit and open them up to shifting more later.
Ask them to define what "democratic" means. Any defensible definition should include:
Everything else is essentially a method of "perfecting" those two aspects. Get them to agree on those two big points, emphasize that Cuba is democratic by that very reasonable standard, then play the inevitable game of whack-a-lib with whatever stuff they throw out there (oh, it's effectively one-party control, like most local governments in the U.S.?).
You might shift them a bit and open them up to shifting more later.