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I have always thought that a benevolent dictatorship would be the best form of government. The trouble is that word, "benevolent," and how to deal with it when

I have always thought that a benevolent dictatorship would be the best form of government. The trouble is that word, "benevolent," and how to deal with it when (not if) the dictator goes off his rocker.

jacquesm 12y ago
Or simply dies. Then you get a power vacuum and the replacement dictator is rarely as benevolent as the one preceding.