• Appaloosa (edited 7 years ago)
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    Mao said "Political power grows from the barrel of a gun", Churchill in the House of Commons: "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

    I guess a benevolent dictatorship is the best we could hope for, though they are often short lived.