As all developers know, distributed systems are extremely hard to scale. It’s much easier to simply beef up the single instance you have.
An effective, just and trustworthy leader is likely the most efficient form of human governance. The men you listed are examples of corrupt, weak leaders - a good ruler makes history.
In contrast, fully representative democracy is only treated with a religious reverence in the west because it benefits those in power. It’s effective at balkanizing the populace and allowing elites to abuse the populace with little repercussion. After all, we voted for them. We’ve only ourselves to blame.
The killer app for democracy is not efficient governance, it is peaceful transfer of power.
With any sort of autocracy, no matter how honest or just "efficient" the autocrat is, inevitably you end up with an autocrat who is far worse than least functional democracy. Autocrats make history by making lots of corpses. History makes this absolutely clear.
Exactly. There's a long tradition in this country of not prosecuting former Presidents, even those who were obviously guilty of crimes (a lot of them, TBH, a lot more than the ones that come immediately to mind).
The proximate cause of the end of the Roman Republic was the Senate's determination to prosecute Julius Caesar after he left office (many Roman officials had immunity while they were in office).
They were basically running around chortling "Oh, we are really going to prosecute the living shit out of Caesar! He's in big trouble now! Hah HAH!"
Caesar had other ideas. He marched his troops on Rome, his enemies ran away like a pack of scared rabbits, and he made himself dictator. The Roman Republic was never restored.
Not many people today study this part of history, but the Founders certainly had.
The difference with the US being, of course, that the only former President to be prosecuted was charged after he had marched on Rome, rather than before.
No one marched on Rome, dude. It was a protest almost exactly like the one when Trump took office. Hillary Clinton wasn't accused of "insurrection", even though she, too, denied the validity of an election.
An effective, just and trustworthy leader is likely the most efficient form of human governance. The men you listed are examples of corrupt, weak leaders - a good ruler makes history.
In contrast, fully representative democracy is only treated with a religious reverence in the west because it benefits those in power. It’s effective at balkanizing the populace and allowing elites to abuse the populace with little repercussion. After all, we voted for them. We’ve only ourselves to blame.