The globalists who supported Assad's fall are the bad guys as it'll only spell more death and suffering.
This is something leftists especially don't understand: Democracy DOESN'T work everywhere. In quite a lot of places, having a dictator in charge ensures the peace because they act as the central pillar of power keeping different fractions in line.
With Assad gone they'll quickly try to secure power for each of their seperate groups, devolve into infighting and probably have jihadies executing people openly as a power play. The only good thing is he's still alive so whether it's Iran or even the Saudis, they have a legitimate claim to take back the country if it gets too bad that people openly support his return.
This is something leftists especially don't understand: Democracy DOESN'T work everywhere.
Does it work anywhere? I used to think it can work in a small ethnically homogenous population, but after the martyrdom of St. Floyd and COVID-19 and decades of refugee worship I saw that no population is immune from pressure to collectively commit national suicide as long as it saves one life and let's us signal that we aren't heckin racist nazis, and that's assuming elections are legitimate which as we saw recently they often aren't. Blame the media or Israel or globalists or whomever for tricking us but that's the situation we live in so in this context democracy can't work. All it does is give fake legitimacy to the regime in charge.
I would argue that democracy doesn't work anywhere for one simple reason: democracy produces politicians, not leaders. These politicians are not accountable to anyone and what inevitably happens is that the democratic country turns into a mafia state that's in bed with corporate and globalist interests.
A dictator or king is far more likely to respect their country's traditions and sovereignty than an elected politician who is only ever interested in political theater while lining their own pockets.
Sure, you could argue that you risk getting a tyrant in autocratic systems. But is avoiding the risk of tyrants worth the risk of almost never getting a true leader that cares for their country?
Even then, it's a lot easier to deal with one tyrant than an entire class of politicians and the bureaucrats under them, and you can mitigate the risk of tyranny by using a monarchical system with family succession. The son of the king can be raised to rule the country wisely, you can't do that with a politician.
And like you said, the public is gullible and unwilling to make any hard decisions or sacrifices most of the time. Closing the border is a hard decision but one that must be made and yet we aren't any closer to it being done because a significant number of Westerners object, despite the obvious damage being done by uncontrolled immigration.
Sure, you could argue that you risk getting a tyrant in autocratic systems. But is avoiding the risk of tyrants worth the risk of almost never getting a true leader that cares for their country?
To quote Mel Gibson's character from The Patriot "Why would I trade one tyrant 2000 miles away for 2000 tyrants one mile away?"
To quote Mel Gibson's character from The Patriot "Why would I trade one tyrant 2000 miles away for 2000 tyrants one mile away?"
Exactly, that's another good point. Let's say you live in a corrupt monarchy where the king keeps using the treasury as his personal debit card. After a certain point he's going to reach a limit where he simply has no more luxuries that he can buy, and things don't deteriorate further.
2000 tyrants are capable of far more evil and corruption than 1 tyrant ever would by himself while being much harder to deal with.
The globalists who supported Assad's fall are the bad guys as it'll only spell more death and suffering.
This is something leftists especially don't understand: Democracy DOESN'T work everywhere. In quite a lot of places, having a dictator in charge ensures the peace because they act as the central pillar of power keeping different fractions in line.
With Assad gone they'll quickly try to secure power for each of their seperate groups, devolve into infighting and probably have jihadies executing people openly as a power play. The only good thing is he's still alive so whether it's Iran or even the Saudis, they have a legitimate claim to take back the country if it gets too bad that people openly support his return.
Does it work anywhere? I used to think it can work in a small ethnically homogenous population, but after the martyrdom of St. Floyd and COVID-19 and decades of refugee worship I saw that no population is immune from pressure to collectively commit national suicide as long as it saves one life and let's us signal that we aren't heckin racist nazis, and that's assuming elections are legitimate which as we saw recently they often aren't. Blame the media or Israel or globalists or whomever for tricking us but that's the situation we live in so in this context democracy can't work. All it does is give fake legitimacy to the regime in charge.
I would argue that democracy doesn't work anywhere for one simple reason: democracy produces politicians, not leaders. These politicians are not accountable to anyone and what inevitably happens is that the democratic country turns into a mafia state that's in bed with corporate and globalist interests.
A dictator or king is far more likely to respect their country's traditions and sovereignty than an elected politician who is only ever interested in political theater while lining their own pockets.
Sure, you could argue that you risk getting a tyrant in autocratic systems. But is avoiding the risk of tyrants worth the risk of almost never getting a true leader that cares for their country?
Even then, it's a lot easier to deal with one tyrant than an entire class of politicians and the bureaucrats under them, and you can mitigate the risk of tyranny by using a monarchical system with family succession. The son of the king can be raised to rule the country wisely, you can't do that with a politician.
And like you said, the public is gullible and unwilling to make any hard decisions or sacrifices most of the time. Closing the border is a hard decision but one that must be made and yet we aren't any closer to it being done because a significant number of Westerners object, despite the obvious damage being done by uncontrolled immigration.
To quote Mel Gibson's character from The Patriot "Why would I trade one tyrant 2000 miles away for 2000 tyrants one mile away?"
Exactly, that's another good point. Let's say you live in a corrupt monarchy where the king keeps using the treasury as his personal debit card. After a certain point he's going to reach a limit where he simply has no more luxuries that he can buy, and things don't deteriorate further.
2000 tyrants are capable of far more evil and corruption than 1 tyrant ever would by himself while being much harder to deal with.