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It’s not possible to have a benevolent authoritarian government.

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It’s happened on incredibly rare occasion. The problem is they don’t stay benevolent; eventually the benevolent dictator dies or is deposed, and their replacement is never so kind

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If they were so benevolent, they would give up the power that could be abused later. They just wanted to seem benevolent.

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Yes it is. I’m sorry your too narrow-minded to understand that.

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It simply is not, it has never happened, anyone who is benevolent would give up power.

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Authoritarianism always eats itself from the inside with corruption. Always.

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