Actually, whether we like it or not, there has been several instances of violence as a medium to reach power, through much of the Humankind history.
We would have assumed that in the XXI century those practices are part of the past, but it only takes a look to the current wars and conflicts in Africa, and recently the Russian offensive to realize that probably the violence will continue to be a tool to conquer people and land until Humanity disappears from this planet.
Even though, we can praise democracy for being among the best options for the people to govern themselves, it is a fragile system which is only holds in place by the assumption that people in key positions will keep oaths and do the right thing. People is faulty.
We would have assumed that in the XXI century those practices are part of the past, but it only takes a look to the current wars and conflicts in Africa, and recently the Russian offensive to realize that probably the violence will continue to be a tool to conquer people and land until Humanity disappears from this planet.
Even though, we can praise democracy for being among the best options for the people to govern themselves, it is a fragile system which is only holds in place by the assumption that people in key positions will keep oaths and do the right thing. People is faulty.
Nice thoughts. But there will always be deceptive leaders.
Democracy might be good-ish, but it turns into dictatorship by the leaders, as you see in the US.
The best way I have seen is government by the family. When national crises arise, families select temporary leaders to get together to form larger government to combat the crisis. When the crisis is over, government dissolves back into family rule. This keeps government small so that evil politicians can't take over the whole land.
Actually, I am not sure if I would call the United States to be a country under a dictatorship, because if it was one it would not have been possible to the Republican party to take back the house of representatives or the Governor De Santis to win in Florida and command the policies there.
In my personal definition of "dictatorship", there is no actual room for opposition and there in the USA, you have laws about civil and political life, which are very robust.
I believe that in the best case scenario, you would see your co-citizens as part of your family, but polarization in politics would not allow that to happen.
Officially the US is not a dictatorship. However, it's a dictatorship by a group... Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court - and those who pull their strings. Dictatorship might not be the correct term, but Biden is certainly understood to be a king by many people, even though they wouldn't use that term. Watch the video in the links here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61953557. Very important.
In every family group there are the 'politicians'. Usually these are the elderly, who aren't strong enough to do the 'farming', but are smart from their experiences in life.
Family as government doesn't make for strong empire. But it DOES keep internal empire from conquering the people. How? The freer families have freedom. It shows. Those lacking freedom want it, so they force their family government to have it.
