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That's not quite true though is it. I suggest you read some Viktor Frankl and Scholznitsen. The type of leader a country has always has something to do with its
by cloutchaser 5y ago
That's not quite true though is it. I suggest you read some Viktor Frankl and Scholznitsen. The type of leader a country has always has something to do with its citizens. It's not a one way street. If enough citizens stand up to dictators, you get a better system.
After all, almost all countries had kings and dictators at some point, and eventually some got rid of them.
- vgel 5y agoThere's room for nuance here, though -- while "democracy via revolution" is a good backstop[1], it's self-evidently a higher-friction method of regime change than electoral democracy. People in the USA or EU are more responsible for their government than Russians. [1] Interestingly the French Declaration of the Rights of Man from 1789 includes the right of "resistance to oppression"