[steveBK123]

Democracies don’t necessarily pick the best leaders but they give a veto to the people such that the worst leaders don’t last long.

A technocracy can build high speed rail in a decade but it can also institute multi decade one child policy, multi year zero-covid, barricade people into their own homes and ban entire industries at the whim of a single leader. There is less course correction.

[kjkjadksj]

Worst leaders don’t last long? Boy I wish that were true.

[kelnos]

We have to define "long". On the scale we're talking about, 8 years of a bad US president is not long, even though it feels that way right now.