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Dictatorship had a pretty clean run of several thousand years there. Sure, dynasties changed, but never the actual system.
So, my second paragraph kind of addresses that. It's never actually about one person having the power, as a government system.
One-person control over something, backed by externally imposed laws, is a completely different thing. You don't have to worry about your forum members poisoning you and physically taking control of your server.
Well the breaking here is the corruption. The 2 different flavors of that. Still ostensibly dictatorship or democracy but not.