• frippa@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Dictatorship by a wide margin. Why should the parliament squabble over a law for months, possibly years, when under a dictatorship said law could be enacted instantly? Also with democracy every politician just thinks about getting elected, not the actual long-term needs of the country.

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      16 hours ago

      The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people. If a dictator just gets to decide what the law is, they’ll likely be self-serving to the dictator, or even outright harmful to entire categories of people.

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        The squabbling process moves the law toward meeting the needs of more people.

        Are there data on this?

        You’re making a causal claim (if squabbling, then more needs met) and that’s either empirically true or not.