Legitimacy of an illegitimate regime

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

My argukment that our countries by far no NO functional republics, states, democracies.

If you really believe that then that is your truth. Myself, i'm not willing to so easily surrender the game.

In theory at least : some did, some tried to do that not.

Exactly my point. Once you surrender your liberty to a tyrant you cannot guarantee that he will ever give it back. When a successful tyrant dies, however popular or beneficial he may have been, there is absolutely no guarantee that his successor will be anything like him. Whatever stability his regime had quickly dissolves into a bloodbath as the various factions vie for power so whoever does emerge as the new "dear leader" already has blood on his hands before he ever issues his first edict.

I just don't see how any of that is preferable to the system that I live under now. YMMV.

But have modern democracies really solved this probkem by having a cycle or electing or re-electing representatives in regualr intervals peacefully? Incompetence and narcissm reigns. Lobbyism is omnipresent.

This implies that such things do not also happen in a dictatorship too. Obviously that is not true, especially in the internecine warfare that I mention above. I suppose that a potentate, if he is strong enough, might be able to put some damper on this but then again he might just as easily encourage it if it helps to keep him on his throne.

It is a system that bases everything upon the whims of a single fallible man who is under the absolutely corrupting influence of absolute power. No thanks.

It just does not work as intended.

Well maybe not but it certainly does work well enough to be a better choice than any transitory utopia created by a benevolent dictator.

We are too many people.

You'll get no argument from me there. This is ultimately a self correcting problem though. If we don't figure out a way to regulate world population on our own then eventually nature will do it for us through disease or some other equally effective way.