Whatever works for local people.
Democracy works in Western Europe and it's offspring (US, Canada, Australia etc) because they arrived at that system via hundreds of years worth of religious, political, ideological and economic wars. They formed at the state level..... consolidated then disintegrated empires...now back to closely cooperating states. They basically arrived at a consensus.
The same cannot be said for people all over the world.
E.g Dictatorship seems to work for Singaporeans. The Chinese are doing well with their model. Most Saudis are against democracy because of the inevitable instability of tribal and sectarian rivalry for power. They have arrived at their own consensus...they might tinker aound with it in the future..who knows?..but liberal democracy is not the panacea to everyone's problems.
lol, Sorry, but you criticize the leadership in the west and make it about the leadership in the west, but these systems are ok because their stability was created by cruelty in each case? i get that democracy is not the end all, be all but we dappin up the Saudis now which is probably the ultimate example of fukk what works, we got money so you do what the fukk we say.
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