[MD Expat in PA]

I am the delusion one for seeing that a one-man strong armed military dictatorship is not the answer?

Do you know who were once desperate for change? Many of the people of Russia who going into the 20th century were still subjected to serfdom and horrible conditions. They had their revolution. What did they get in return? Stalin. Same with France’s revolution that ended up with Napoleon and the German people suffering from war reparations after WWI who ended up with Hitler.

This never ends well.

[central_va]

One day even fools like you the scales will fall from your eyes...

[Dr. Franklin]

I am the delusion one for seeing that a one-man strong armed military dictatorship is not the answer?
Do you know who were once desperate for change? Many of the people of Russia who going into the 20th century were still subjected to serfdom and horrible conditions. They had their revolution. What did they get in return? Stalin. Same with France’s revolution that ended up with Napoleon and the German people suffering from war reparations after WWI who ended up with Hitler.
This never ends well.

Things aren't as universally bad as you claim. The military in Turkey has always played a political role since the founding of the modern Turkish state after WWI. In 1960 the Turkish military deposed a president, and then withdrew again into the background. For many in Chile, Pinochet's regime was better than socialism. As repressive as that regime was, it wasn't close to being Stalin's gulag state. Pilsudski created a reborn Polish state after WWI, and intervened in Polish politics when he felt it appropriate. Polish historians contend he had proposed a preemptive war with the French against Nazi Germany when Hitler first came to power, which the French refused. If things don't always end well, it isn't always because the strong man was bad, but sometimes because the weak men prevailed.