![]() ![]() I think your perspective makes sense, and I agree with it for the most part. Dictators are great at pleasing the people they need to please to stay in power, it’s just that’s less than 10,000 people, sometimes less than 1,000. ![]() Dictatorships are a lot more likely to realise they made a mistake and back down.ĭemocracy’s saving grace is in the proportion of the population that has power over politics, nowhere else. Regarding mistakes and bad decisions democracies may be a bit better than dictatorships but it’s not a massive difference. That’s not a guarantee of lifetime tenure but it’s pretty good, and you don’t get to be dictator, or last the first two years without being excellent at the fight for political survival. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Logic of Political Survival. ![]() (And with that, often, actual survival.) Dictatorships deploy, with limited constraint, their immortal nation’s power on mortal time scales.Ī dictator that survives the first two years is more likely than not to die in power. They must continuously fight for political survival. No “lifetime leaders” are guaranteed a life term. ![]()
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