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Time to get rid of Western Democracies

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« on: October 22, 2016, 12:49:45 pm »

Advantages of Dictatorship


Whenever we come across the word Dictator, images of a ruthless leader who commits atrocities on people to get his own way come to mind. If we look at some of the famous dictators in the past, such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, they have reinforced this point of view of dictators being ruthless and doing anything to hold on to their power. However, there are certain dictators like Mustafa Kamal Pasha of Turkey, who have brought a lot of progress to their country. So it can be rightly said that just like all other types of governments, there are both dictatorship advantages and disadvantages.

In this following Buzzle article, however, we will highlight the pros of dictatorship, and go into details about this form of government.

Benefits of Dictatorship

Dictatorship can be defined as a form of government in which the power is centralized. It either lies with a single person or a small group of people. The general population has no say in the functioning of the government. The people do not have any choice with regards to by whom or how their country will be run. In a dictatorship form of government, the people are expected to do whatever is decided for them by their dictator. China, Zimbabwe, Egypt, and Cuba, among many others, follow a dictatorship form of government. Let us try to understand the advantages of dictatorship.

Stable Government
In a dictatorship, since the decision-making lies with only one person and others do not have any say in the working of the government, it offers a kind of stability to the country. Problems such as frequent elections, as in the case of democracy, or a disruption of peace due to political factions, do not arise in a dictatorship.

Less Room for Corruption
A dictator is very stringent with regards to the rules, regulations, penalties, punishments, and rewards. This makes the people working under him less liable to corruption.

Most Efficient During Emergencies
When a country faces any kind of emergency, such as a war or a health epidemic, a dictatorship government can prove to be the most efficient one. The reason being that all the decisions are taken by one person, so there is no ambiguity with regards to the plan of action as well as individual responsibilities that are fixed to cope with the emergency. One of its main advantages over democracy thus is that it is better equipped to face emergencies.

Faster Development and Success

They say there is a price to be paid for being successful, and in a dictatorial form of government, it becomes easier to pay that price. A dictatorial government does what it has to in order to lead to development, it does not worry about keeping its people happy, and it is usually the people who are driven to achieve this desired success. Thus, there is more development because there are no obstacles to slow down the process.

Lesser Crime Rate
Most dictatorship governments are police states. In a way, therefore, there is low crime rate under such regimes. Another reason for a better law and order situation in these states is that various laws are passed immediately, without any discussion or waiting for public opinion on them. This leads to better control over crimes as well.

"Things Happen" Quickly
In a dictatorship form of government, all things, whether related to governance or businesses or anything else, happen much quicker than in other types of government. The reason for this is the same i.e. decision-making lies with a single person.

Even though a dictatorship form of government offers for many advantages, for these benefits to translate into real life, a dictator needs to be selfless, benevolent, well experienced, and intelligent. Because a dictator has unlimited power, and if he lacks the basic qualities mentioned above, the disadvantages of dictatorship, such as oppression of people, no freedom of choice for the people, accumulation of wealth in a few hands, loss of civil rights, flawed decision-making, etc. can lead the country towards downfall. Looking at the stakes associated with a dictatorship form of government, many countries under such a regime are considering becoming democracies, which is a form of government for the people, of the people and by the people. In Today's times observing the progress democracies such as America and India are making, democracy is considered the best form of governance.

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« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2016, 12:59:17 pm »


from the New Zealand Listener....

Editorial: Three cheers for MMP

With Donald Trump in striking distance of the US presidency,
this is no time for New Zealand to be smug, although his rise
is reason at least for us to give thanks for our voting system.


Thursday, 29 September 2016



THE TRUMP PHENOMENON is what comes of a large number of citizens feeling frozen out of the political system. Trumpians are not the fashionably mourned “missing millions” — those who perennially don't vote. These are mostly people who do vote, and have probably always wanted to vote, but whose views have been marginalised by the inflexible monolithic nature of the US political system. Its two-tribes-only model was not what the founding fathers envisaged, but their noble creation has calcified into a Republican-Democrat binary option that sidelines all views but the currently mainstream.

Presidential candidates such as Trump and Bernie Sanders, with their unimplementable and often mendacious policy prescriptions, may seem horribly blunt instruments with which to fight the system's inflexibility. But clearly, the way a lot of US voters have come to feel, this vote is as much about a punishment of the system as a cure.

Britain is experiencing similar political perversities for the same reasons. Unease about immigration and European fiat mounted for years, but could never find expression within the major political parties. The UK Independence Party finally provided a viable outlet for that disquiet, yet despite garnering 12.6% of the vote last election, could win only one of the 650 electorate seats under Britain's first-past-the-post system. This blatant injustice fed antipathy and distrust of the system, leading to the Brexit vote.

Now a different but intersecting group has effected a reverse takeover of the British Labour Party. The party members who have again defied the caucus in electing Jeremy Corbyn leader are not traditional Labour members, but newcomers. Exit polls have established that Corbyn's challenger, Owen Smith, was the clear winner among those who were party members before 2015 and among members aged 18-24. This YouGov data tells us that those who have actually done some campaigning for Labour, along with the natural crop of new, young Labour supporters, do not identify with the party's new direction. Labour has been repurposed by more militant forces — again, people who feel hard done by and unrepresented.

At least the Trumpians have a fair chance of success. The Corbynistas have little, there being no sign that their zeal is proving infectious to the mainstream citizenry. They seem not to care that Labour won't win doing it their way. They despise the mainstream for, as they see it, having locked them out. Their end is punishment — even if that proscribes their ability to reform the system to make it more responsive.

We're fortunate to have seen only a pale iteration of this in our Labour Party's perorations, and that's because voters here have a wider menu of options. Under MMP, every voter knows their vote will count — unless the party they give their tick fails to either get more than 5% or win an electoral seat. They will get a voice in Parliament. Our politics can be maddening and gladiatorial, but at least it is not the two-sizes-fit-all straitjacket facing British and US voters. We can get much more nuanced policy-making because our Parliament can resolve into floating blocs of opinion, constantly challenging time-hardened vested interests.

As popular as National has been, it has always had to count. It has never been able to make decisions without first persuading its allies, and then at least attempting to persuade its foes, to support it. We may dislike the ensuing ructions, such as NZ First throwing a spanner in the works of some Treaty settlement legislation last week. But the party's issues with the bills were legitimate and sincere. It had every right to decline to co-operate — a right democratically conferred by proportional voting. Other countries' systems would have shut the party out, causing its supporters' grievances to fester and magnify to unhealthy dimensions.

Populist political gargoyles such as Trump and Ukip's Nigel Farage have their place, but our inclusive system denies them the false glamour of underdoggery. We have a precious safety valve in proportionality. Divisive and fringe policies can be represented in our Parliament, but demagoguery will always struggle.


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Related story:

 • The fable of Winston, Gerry and the Treaty legislation derailment, by political columnist Jane Clifton


http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/features/editorial-three-cheers-mmp
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« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2016, 04:34:20 pm »

MMP still produces idiots because idiots are the ones voting. Taking power by force gets rid of that.
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« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2016, 06:31:02 pm »


Perhaps you should move to Syria.

They have the perfect government for the likes of you.
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« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2016, 07:06:39 pm »


Perhaps you should move to Syria.

They have the perfect government for the likes of you.


Why when this country filled with a pack of idiots is ripe for the taking?
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« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2016, 07:44:20 pm »


A single bullet can bring down a dictator.

It takes multiple bullets to bring down a MMP government.
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« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2016, 08:10:30 pm »


A single bullet can bring down a dictator.

It takes multiple bullets to bring down a MMP government.


Yeah but those that generally support MMP are less likely to pull the trigger than those that support dictatorship.
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« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2016, 03:00:07 am »

So you're thinking we need a new Hitler

with a few thousand nukes to sort everyone out lol
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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2016, 05:09:12 pm »


from The Washington Post....

Defeating both Trump and Trumpism

The damage Trump has done to the nation will linger even if he loses the election.

By E.J. DIONNE Jr. | 7:53PM EST - Sunday, November 06, 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 8th. — Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on February 8th.
 — Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters.


ALTHOUGH Donald Trump's defeat is a prerequisite to national recovery, the profound damage he has done to our nation will not be wiped away if he loses.

And even if she wins, Hillary Clinton will still be feeling the effects of the multi-year campaign waged by Republicans in Congress to destroy her. The evidence suggests that her GOP foes will try to end her presidency prematurely by colluding with an implacably hostile conservative media and, it now seems, right-wing agents inside the FBI.

Clinton got good news on Sunday when FBI Director James B. Comey announced that his decision not to charge her would remain unchanged after the agency's review of newly discovered emails.

But Comey's announcement only underscored his own recklessness in issuing his October 28th letter announcing the existence of the emails before the FBI even knew what was in them. His letter poisoned the political atmosphere against Clinton without any justification — to the great advantage of Trump and the glee of her congressional critics.

So while I celebrate the conclusion of the most abysmal campaign of my lifetime, I fear that this will not end the division, aggression and rancid prejudice Trump has nurtured.

A Trump victory would unleash the furies. But even a Trump loss will not advance the cause of social peace and mutual tolerance unless the majority of Americans who still believe in making our experiment in self-government work insist on the need for Congress to govern, not obstruct. Abraham Lincoln had little use for political grudges: “I am in favor of short statutes of limitations in politics.” His successors in the Republican Party would no doubt declare him a sellout for harboring such sentiments.

After all we have learned about Trump's selfishness, indiscipline, mendacity, greed, misogyny, vindictiveness and intellectual laziness, it should not be necessary to continue to make a case against him. The man who opened his campaign by declaring that many immigrants to our country from Mexico are “rapists” has legitimized far-right politics and the open expression of bigotry. White nationalism has flourished in the garden of Trumpism.




Voters know about his treatment of women, his shortchanging those who worked for him, his warm statements about authoritarian leaders, his readiness to be assisted by Vladimir Putin's minions, his denigration of a Gold Star family and a heroic POW, and his open promises to use the instruments of government to punish his enemies. Long ago, all this should have reduced his share of the vote to single digits.

The fact that Trump, on the contrary, still has a chance of victory speaks to a profound distemper in the country. Our deep divides along lines of party, race, class, gender and region guarantee even a man as deeply flawed as Trump a firm foundation of support. And many of our fellow citizens, shaken by economic and social changes, are hurting so much that they have embraced the opportunity to use Trump as a way of expressing their rage.

Trump's rise challenges both sides of politics. The massive support for Trump among white working-class voters suggests that they do not find the economic promises of progressive politicians sufficiently persuasive or believable to entice them away from the riskiest vote they will ever cast in their lives. Liberals have much work to do.

But the true disgrace is the timidity and opportunism of Republican leaders. By supporting Trump, legions of Republican officeholders, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wisconsin) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), have signaled that this preposterous candidate's endorsement of their ideological agenda of tax cuts and deregulation matters far more to them than his authoritarian tendencies or his intolerance. History has not been kind to pro-business conservatives who in the past tried to use far-right demagogues to crush enemies to their left.

And the end of the campaign has found Trump in close alliance with Clinton's Republican tormentors in Congress. Representatives Jason Chaffetz (Utah), Darrell Issa (California), Trey Gowdy (South Carolina) and their allies have spent years hurling charges and driving up Clinton's unpopularity.

They gave Trump his talking points in the final days, with a major and outrageously misleading assist from the FBI. Comey's second letter could not undo the gratuitous damage he caused Clinton or her party by abruptly altering the trajectory of the campaign.

One does not have to overlook her mistakes or her failings to insist that nothing Clinton has done justifies the hatred that has come her way. She is one of the most prepared and disciplined Americans ever to seek the presidency. She has devoted her life to public service, and her record as a senator and secretary of state won her high favorable ratings — which Congress's taxpayer-financed investigation machine systematically set about to bring down.

If Clinton does prevail, the country will need to back up its rejection of Trump with a rebuke to those who would use Trumpian tactics to deny her legitimacy and stymie the government's ability to function. Unending investigations that manufacture accusations based on preconceived conclusions is not Congress's mission. The vile spirit of this campaign cannot be allowed to contaminate the next four years.


• E.J. Dionne writes about politics in a twice-weekly column and on the PostPartisan blog at The Washington Post. He is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a government professor at Georgetown University and a commentator on politics for National Public Radio, ABC's “This Week” and MSNBC. He is the author of Why the Right Went Wrong.

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Related stories:

 • FBI director says agency once again won’t recommend charges over Clinton email

 • In final campaign sprint, Comey news adds to drama

 • With bombshells, FBI wades into corrosive presidential race

 • James Comey totally botched the last 10 days of the campaign

 • Anne Applebaum: Trump is a threat to the West as we know it, even if he loses

 • Ari Fleischer: Here's how I figured out whom to vote for

 • Dana Milbank: The first 100 horrific days of a Trump presidency

 • Barton Swaim: Donald Trump tries to kill political correctness — and ends up saving it

 • Eugene Robinson: Freaking out? Go vote instead.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/defeating-both-trump-and-trumpism/2016/11/06/bf82db04-a451-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html
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« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2016, 01:35:06 am »

TRUMP IS THE WINNER MAKING AMERICA GREAT YAYYYYY

DEATH TO THOSE STUPID COMMUNIST SCUMBAGS YAYYYY
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