Hi, commie here, I will nationalize your toothbrush!

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Yeah, a society with a 'good' ruler is probably preferable to rule of the masses, I do sympathize with the Nietzschean type of elitism and understand where you are coming from. I also think a bad ruler is probably worse than democracy, and I have seen too many of them. Its like the Stanford Prison experiments, giving people this kind of authority over others tends to lead to abuses of power, I think it isi unfortunately human nature, and the type of person who can wield this responsibly is rare.

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I also think a bad ruler is probably worse than democracy

I'd say always is far worse. The bad part is there are some to this day. Although there were rare cases of good kings. (yea I believe in objective morality btw xD)

That's why tripartite governance is neccesary, even "king" shouldn't have unlimited power and be out of control.