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What the world really needs right now is another narcissistic dictator.
Dictatorships are not intrinsically bad.
You can have good dictators, even if they are rare.
If you can't comprehend this, then you are a victim of propaganda and indoctrination.
Sometimes, it's easier to convince the masses to vote against themselves than it is to convince a dictator to sell them out.
For example, Mexico vs. El Salvador.
15 years ago, nobody thought Mexico would have a worse gang problem than El Salvador. Without Bukele's heavy-handed approach to suppressing gangs, they would still be running rampant like they are in Mexico.
Hard disagree there.
But it really depends on what you value as good and bad.
For instance, if you think that people have an inherent right to have a say in how they are governed, then a dictatorship can never be good because it infringes on that right in the most serious of ways.
If you think a stable and sustainable system of government that will last beyond the life of a few leaders is important, then dictatorship is not a good system, because one good dictator creates no guarantee that the next dictator will be good, and establishing a system of dictatorship affords a bad dictator that much more power to ruin lives.
What about when people vote against their own interests?
What about when the majority suppresses minorities?
They have the right to do so.
That is a bad thing. But talk about a dictatorship?? That's one person suppressing everybody else.
So it's better to be ruled by gangs than a dictator?
The people who were afraid to leave their homes that can now go outside made the wrong decision by electing a government to solve their problems?
Or, more realistically, you're too indoctrinated to understand how their real problems are more important than your philosophical ones.
Oh no! Somebody think of the gangbangers!
The fuck are you talking about?
You're replying to things I didn't say. Are you hearing voices or something?
Try again. Do better.
If people vote against their own interests, it is solely their fault, there is no way around it, deal with the consequences and do better next time. Saying that people must be protected against themselves means that you believe that your fellow human beings are inherently inferior to you and that they are not rational beings, akin to animals.
If you believe that you have intellectual superiority but you are not able to communicate that to your fellow countrymen, then you have failed thoroughly at being a politician, or you are not as superior as you think you are.