This has always been the push/pull between strict democracy, republic, and benevolent dictatorship. In a strict democracy, there are too many "idiots" who don'

This has always been the push/pull between strict democracy, republic, and benevolent dictatorship. In a strict democracy, there are too many "idiots" who don't actually understand what the issue is. In a dictatorship you can get a CRAZY amount of things done (see Singapore, China), but all it takes is one/few bad egg(s) and sends the whole country into the stone age (see Philippines). A republic seems pretty okay in the long term for now mostly because if there's too much infighting the country becomes a gridlock (like now), but that seems more like a feature than a bug.