"There was once a time when I donned the Phrygian cap, but I have since come to realize the Mexican people are not ready for democracy. Indeed they may not be ready in a hundred years. Mexico needs a dictator, although there is no reason why he cannot be a benevolent one."
Literally no people is ready for democracy. 2/3 of humanity are braindead cattle who do whatever the people around them are doing. They usually fail to make rational decisions about their own lives; why on earth would we trust them to make world-altering decisions about politics and economics?
>>18629973And thats why he got deposed twice and is now reviled in Mexico, while Benito Juarez is a national hero.
he overthrew iturbide's monarchy while not knowing what a republic was
>>18629973And still aren't in 2026.
>>18629977This is why democracies are not governed by the common people, but by a small capitalist elite. Idealistic democracy would be anarchy. Practical democracy is a mercantile dictatorship, as opposed to a military dictatorship (fascism), an aristocratic dictatorship (monarchy), a clerical dictatorship (theocracy) or an academic dictatorship (communism).
Monarchism was also the wrong system to rule Mexico, for it's regional elites, petty bureaucrats, rebellious peasants and upstart workers and won't abide by a system that doesn't either give them a seat at the table or respect their rights and priviledges. Iturbide was chased out by an angry congress. Santa Anna failed to defend the nation against foreign invasions. Maximilliam was a foreign prince too conservative for the liberals, and too liberal for the conservatives. Porfirio kept the peace but grew old and couldn't pass on his legacy. The revolutionary caudillos killed one another.The only system that gave political stability and peace to Mexico was the PRI, the party that ruled for 70 years and built modern Mexico. The Perfect Dictatorship
>>18630364watching enough police body cam videos will cure you of any idea that the average person is smart enough to understand law, government, etc
>>18629977Democracy works great when it’s very local and concerning things like whether to build a road or a park and it’s shit when it concerns national issues. Keep democracy localized and severely punish corruption with exile or death
>>18629973Santa Anna was just saying shit. This guy's only identifiable ideology is that he thought Santa Anna was fucking epic and should have absolute power. At least when porfirio did it the bit was believable.
>>18630424Bustamante was marginally more principled but also a Lunatic.
>>18630407True. Giving power to the average person would result in a tyranny.
>>18629977>A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is that they are not true...I do not deserve a share in governing a hen-roost much less a nation. Nor do most people...The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.-C. S. Lewis
>>18630407This applies to both the cops and the sovereign citizen they're tasering btw.
>>18630467Damn
>>18630364>academic dictatorship (communism)
>>18629973>Phrygian capWhat about Mixolydian caps?
>>18631743Based
>>18629973Reminds me of what a disgruntled and older Bolívar had to say about Latinx America.
>>18631746no cap miss me with that std shit
>>18629973"My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control - not whiskered men with bombs) – or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy."JRR Tolkien
>>18631743All the men in this photo went to college, most of them in Paris
