on another note, though am no fan of Marcos, my childhood days was on the 70′s and I have fond memories of the city then

1. Peso to Dollar rate is 6-7 to 1
2. Disciplined commuters
3. Clean city

Woe to mankind when religious tenets and/or axioms are brought into man-agement. On the secular issues, mankind hardly meets the “standards” midway so that leaves wonderment if and when religious teachings are pointed to.

I do agree about “benevolent dictators” but may I add IF they stay on course because

Again, I differ about Democracy for the simple reason that the people are being hoodwinked, befuddled and manipulated when it comes to making their choice. And that isn’t what Democracy truly means.

Good comment from you though, bluelabel but I shall refrain from saying anything about Marcos whom Democracy once idolised and then scorned.

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just my half-cent thought.

Or am I to assume that you consider anything that is not Democracy as being Anarchy?

Now that you have introduced anarchy into the discussion, there is more anarchy in democratically governed nations than other forms of non-democratic governments. So how does democracy fair vis-a-vis Democracy and Anarchy?

I think in his opening statement, Sonnie has already oped about his concerns about basic freedom and whatever regulation by Civil Law means today.

Russia without the Czarist rule has not fared any better by social improvement or comparable standards of living.

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My take is that the worst of democracy is still NOT better than the best of dictatorial regime. My rationale for saying so follows.

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No two persons will ever come to a settled conclusion on what it takes to form a fair and just governance of the masses.

My take is that the worst of democracy is still better than the best of dictatorial regime. My rationale for saying so follows.

Democracy (even at its worst) gives man false hopes. Is there a hope for a better tomorrow when in fact tomorrow is sealed save for a miracle? Festering hope is likened to having a gangrene wound.

Dictatorship on the other hand negates hope (the kind of hope that was just mentioned above). The future stark as it may seem is already a forgone conclusion. It does not support hopeful aspirations. One learns to live within the norms.
Dictatorial regimes is likened to having an amputated limb.

To cite a real case for example:

Indonesians today, despite all that the rest of the World has come to know about ex-President Suharto’s dictatorial regime, they now clamour for a return to such a rule.

Why? Democracy has done nothing to alleviate the misfortunes for the vastly impoverished populace. Fact is, it has turned even worse. The Indonesians know too well its a folly to hope for anything better with their sham democratic form of government.

Indonesians reminisce that they never had to suffer for want of the basic necessities in life during Suharto’s rule.
Their staple food was within their economic means and energy was never an issue.

Prices for basic needs were not inflationary during Suharto’s rule.

I do a small amount of humanitarian work in Indonesia and I fully understand what the Indonesians mean when they yearn for a return to Suharto-type of governance.

How dictatorial regimes are made out to be by the hugely democratically controlled media is another debatable issue.

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thefool says: It sucks ALL THE TIME, BIG TIME! DEMO-cracy is mankind’s second greatest sin after the biblical Original Sin!

Oh! there’s still plenty of money to prop it. So, democrazy is going to be around for a long time yet.

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