re: #703 keloyd

Not so fast, if the populace is hopelessly backward, illiterate, etc, the case for a ruling elite is stronger. In medieval times, a hereditary monarch was better for the peasant than constant coups and instability. Likewise , in Haiti (or the middle East as Buchanan opined) the little guy was better off with the Duvalier iron fist than one crooked mafia elected leader after another.

It’s all about the lesser of 2 evils.

Nope. Duvalier was a monster, he corrupted and destroyed his country. Removing a monster is a good thing.