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by eric001 3715 days ago
"Why should the House of Saud govern, and not be replaced by a democracy?"

That is a very, very naive question tho, don't you think?

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Mandela: Why should we have apartheid, and not equality?

eric001: That is a very, very naive question tho, don't you think?

Democracy is sown via stability. Stability is sown via dictatorship.

Sometimes it takes a dictator to bring about democracy, simply because he dictates it that way.

You know the answer ?
if he'd knew, he wouldn't ask.