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It's been a strong component the world over. Even in the US we've got exemplars such as George Washington, FDR, and the Adams and Bush dynasties. Democracies as
by anonymouskimmer 4y ago
It's been a strong component the world over. Even in the US we've got exemplars such as George Washington, FDR, and the Adams and Bush dynasties. Democracies as political-individual-leader absent as Switzerland are the exception, not the rule. And the less so for other forms of government.
- cafard 4y agoThe Adams dynasty? The first two incumbent presidents to lose an election?
- jacquesm 4y agoI see significant differences between those. Xi is a dictator in all but name now, that does not hold for the others listed in your comment.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoOh sure. The US governmental structure doesn't easily allow dictators. And it's much easier for an FDR-like fellow to rewrite the Chinese constitution to allow a dictator than to so rewrite the US one. FDR was probably as close as we got to a Xi like figure, who was able to bend the Supreme court to his will by realistically threatening to pack it.