Perhaps “Benign Despot” might be the best choice of Government for Pakistan at its current particular stage of social and political development...
“Perhaps “Benign Despot” might be the best choice of Government for Pakistan at its current particular stage of social and political development...”
Agree with that. I always get depressed whenever I venture the opinion that democracy requires a mature civil society before it has any chance of working - and it needs to have had it for at least a generation. I always get abuse for being a pompous British Imperialist! I know the US holds democracy as an article of faith, and I agree it’s the ultimate end goal of any cultures development. But to keep going to nations that are essentially still in the tribal or feudal states of development and get them to leapfrog straight to working liberal democray always strikes me as nuts. Yet we try to do it again and again and again.....
Get a 20 year track record of:
- The rule of law
- The seperation of powers between the executive, judicary and legislature
- A stable economy and banking system
- The removal of nepotism and conyism and tribalism
Then you have half a chance of making democracy work. The ugly truth is you often need either a colonial power or a benevolent dictator to get those preconditions in place.
It is truly anyones guess who ends up running this mess of a country now. My hope is for someone with a similar world view to Mush. Bet I never thought I would say that 9 years ago!