The political left knows that pure ‘democracy’ naturally devolves into pure anarchy, and that this is basically a middle finger to the system that prides itself on ‘democracy’. It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy but applied to voting.
In terms of percentages, Pol Pot is the top genocidal person in modern history, having murdered one third of his countrymen. In terms of total body count, Islam easily wins with about 400 million murdered in South Asia over five centuries. That’s 0.4 billion for clarity.