Power Vacuum vs. Dictator

Thrasher · July 28, 2016, 11:01:45 PM

Just wondering what your guys thoughts are on this. I know I will likely be in the minority opinion, but I think that having some form of order, even though it may be from a dictator is still better than any chaos that a power vacuum might bring.

DAS B00T x2 · July 28, 2016, 11:12:28 PM

Well if the occupying force stuck around long enough and actually set up the successor government properly... there'd be no issues with a power vacuum.

Mr. Psychologist · July 29, 2016, 04:47:24 AM

There is nothing wrong with the idea of a Dictatorship.
Power does not corrupt, it simply attracts the corruptible.

A power-vacuum on the other hand, it usually ends in a bloodbath like syria or lybia.

More Than Mortal · July 29, 2016, 05:45:03 AM

A Western military actually supporting some kind of provisional government and not pussying out because "BOO HOO 5,000 OF OUR SOLDIERS HAVE DIED" is better. . .

Meanwhile 17,000 of the natives we were fighting alongside died trying to beat back the same scumbag theocrats.

snee0rp · July 29, 2016, 09:32:17 PM

Dictator, always. What arises from the vacuum is almost always worse.
Supporting revolutions was a mistake.

Luciana · July 30, 2016, 12:47:05 AM

Dictator is always more preferable I think to a power vacuum where anarchy and chaos consistently always seem to crop up. It's the lesser of two evils.