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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The problem with a benevolent dictator is that they die eventually, and are replaced by a non-benevolent dictator, or a civil war, or both. Unfortunately it looks like the US democracy might have the same outcome.