Battle: Dictator vs. Democracy

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Education

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• dictatorship
• democracy
• central
• bank
• oil
• resources
• globalization
• libya
• syria
• yemen
• war
• rebels
• america
• arab
• spring

[xxdiogenescynicxx]

This is very true. Most people forget that yes there have been benevolent dictators and sometimes those countries in protecting themselves against foreign intervention need dictators. Not to mention if the public needs to be educated how could you give an illiterate population or highly religious population the democratic vote. Democracy is only as good as the public and right now the American public has been so dumbed down by the media it is impossible to have democracy.

[TrueStoryTV]

@mikesheen741 You don't know what Gaddafi did or didn't do. You only know what the press tells you he did.

[lygophile]

@pplayer666 a medieval serf was better off than people payed to work in mines or as mercenaries. or children working STD-rife streets or something.

[pplayer666]

@lygophile give an example of such instance in which free labor can be better than the paid labor. sounds ridiculous, to say the least.

[gulbirk]

I only have one objection. If the country is truly functioning, AND is actually a good country to live, why wouldnt the dictator be elected if they opened for democracy?

For example, I believe the communists would be elected in Cuba if they opened for elections. Why? Because their lifes are hundreds of times better under this current dictatorship then what it used to be.

[PlayTheShanen]

@TrueStoryTV and so do you.

[lygophile]

slavery can also be better than payed labour in some instances. slavery is still a very bad thing. (i mean property slavery)

[lygophile]

Plato wasn't a big fan..

anyway, cenceptually democracy is way better, cause with a dictatorship, you rely solely on luck.

in the ancient Empire of Rome (although de jure it was a republic in a permanent state of martial law) there was once a benevolent dictator. he had no children (or at least no sons), so he chose his successor, that in his turn did the exact same thing. however the fifth benevolent dictator had a son. that son became possibly the worst tyrant of all of Rome's history.

[Luigi84289]

@TrueStoryTV Gaddafi was fine. All the people had healthcare almost everybody was literate, almost everybody had a job and home and he was going to put his country back on the gold standard. The west 2 years ago were praising Gaddafi articles all over the place and once he decided to go to the Gold Dinar and remove his country from the world bank all of a sudden he was equivalent to Satan and had to be killed.

[mikesheen741]

@TrueStoryTV Yes, but two wrongs don't make a right.

[TrueStoryTV]

@mikesheen741 You say he tourtured and murdered, the U.K. and U.S. do both on a daily basis. SMH. U.S. and the U.K. invaded Iraq and took over the country killing thousands of civilians. They didn't just threaten war. They actually did it. I know it's hard to face the facts but it's true. You just have to look at things with an open mind and take it for what it is.

[TrueStoryTV]

@mikesheen741 Who said he was nice?