[cassianoleal]

You're reading both too much into it.

First, I don't really consider what exists in "the west" as actual democracies. They are oligarchies or autocracies disguised as democracies instead. They've always been that, only now it's becoming more obvious.

> the dictatorship is then better

No, not at all. But it does have a clear path toward something better. This doesn't make it better, but it is a silver lining.

> Why couldn't then a democracy have a revolution as well

It could, but more frequently what happens are coups - and they descent into authoritarianism. Or the authoritarians get elected.

> And how's all this black and white thinking, like because democracy is not perfect, dictatorship becomes suddenly acceptable???

I definitely didn't say or think that.

[chairmansteve]

Only a fool would think a dictatorship would "have a clear path toward something better".

The evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.

[cassianoleal]

Is it? Having lived in one and having studied it extensively, I don't think there was a single moment in time since the coup all the way throughout the 21 years it lasted when the people fighting against had doubts about what they had to do and where they wanted to get.