[point]

This is the most stupid essay I have read in my life. Most scientific advances have not been made in democratic governments - The old Islamic Discoveries, the old Chinese Discoveries, the old European Discoveries were all made under King-like dynasties. A huge number of inventions were made under Fascist Germany.

Democracy is in fact really bad for science, because in a democratic society, you need to convince many people you are right. In a fascist or monarchist society, you just need to convince the king.

And then stupidly equating this with china - china is where it is right now because of a very strong central government with tight control. Without this government, the chinese people would have collapsed into civil war and split up - it would not have been at the level it is at now at all.

Old men with limited experience should not go meddling with systems they do not understand and that seem to be working, based on their ideology. The alternative could mean the death of millions - look what happened when they thought to bring 'democracy' to Iraq.

[yters]

That is not a good model either. Sure, you get a lot of problems solved, but they are all very immediate and pragmatic. Plus, America would have been defeated by China, USSR, Nazi Germany, etc. if this were true.

The best way is to decouple science from politics as much as possible.

[DanielBMarkham]

I had to downmod you, sorry.

Most scientific advances have been made in the last century, nay the last fifty years. The pace is exponentially accelerating. That means, unfortunately for your case, that most advances have been made under modern goverments, i.e., democracies (or rather democratic republics)

Then you kind of went on a tear about old people mucking in things which they don't understand, which I have no idea what you are talking about -- funding of research? Selection of who gets grant money? Retirement home members playing WoW?

Sorry for the downmod, but posts that do not parse and are obviously false should go further down the list. I'd give you one or the other, but not both.