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by jeremyswank 4697 days ago
monarchy, autocracy, and tyranny have been around a lot longer than 2500 years. don't we still have those, too?
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We still have monarchies, but many of them are also democratic (hereditary monarch plus elected prime minister and legislature). I agree we still have tyrannies too, because I think there's a cycle between them and democracies. Democracy weakens, a tyrant takes power, this lasts for a while before collapsing, then his competitors take power themselves (in some cases, democratically).