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About the only way we’re going to actually have a democracy is if they consistently lose elections. That’s going to mean volunteering, donating, and actually turning out to vote
It would be nice if it was benevolent dictatorship. That has never happened and never will with our current iteration of our species.
Such an idea is impossible anyways, because to ensure a benevolent society you need to incorporate the wide range of viewpoints and experiences of the people within it, something a dictatorship, by definition, precludes.
I feel like some Roman emperors fit the bill. Or maybe Alexander the Great. At least for the people in their empire.
Both of your examples are rulers that did so at the edge of a bloody sword. Death begets death begets death.