What authoritarianism & cronyism can do to a country

[JacksinPA]

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[Cardinal]

Authoritarianism and cronyism will delete a country? That seems awful severe.

 

[Common Sense 1]

Thanks

 

[Mr Person]

Authoritarianism and cronyism will delete a country? That seems awful severe.

We don't really need Oceania, do we?

 

[Ahlevah]

Thanks

Actually, I thought it had the makings of a good thread. That's why I entered it. I don't see authoritarian regimes as necessarily bad. It depends on who the authority is. If it's someone like Le Kuan Yew, who could take a crime-ridden cesspool and economic backwater from Britain and turn it into an economic powerhouse with virtually no crime, then more power to him.

"Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. :shock: If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society."

"If you are a troublemaker... it's our job to politically destroy you... Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac."

Le Kuan Yew

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...7/Lee-Kuan-Yew-his-most-memorable-quotes.html

 

[poweRob]

I was actually expecting an article about Brazil's new president and their future down there.