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You all speak of dictatorships as evil, which is completely untrue. A government is only as good or bad as the person in charge. It is hence possible to have a fantastically wonderful dictatorship, or a completely horrific democracy. "Democracy", through the inclusion of the majority of the populace, limits its own ability to be greatly evil (assuming a widely-shared definition of evil), but at the same time limits its own ability to be as good (same assumption) as a dictatorship has the possibility of being. We just happen to have had multiple runs of some very nasty dictators.
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