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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita had a great idea for any legislation change that could be abused to advance any specific political direction. Just have it come to pass in 20-40 years, when the careers of everyone involved are over.

Obviously once you know this you can just openly discuss how any state should actually work without the risk of hurting your current objectives.

Wow thats a deep question! Fortunately I have a deep answer for you ;)

It‘s is called selectorat theory: Dictatorships or democracies are defined by the size of their selectorat (the group of people deciding who stays in power).

In dictatorships very few people can decide to depose the ruler. Like a some high generals for example. Usually dictatorships have a couple of thousand people in the selectorat.

Democracies have millions of people in there seletorat. Depending on the system it can range from maybe 10-20% to 100% of voters that actually can determine the outcome of an election.

I also dont get the vibe, from a relatively uninformed perspective, that Meduro is a dictatorial type. I still think he is a dictator tho. Basically every dictator has elections. This is very normal and not surprising at all.

Maybe this is a way to deal with dictatorships. They are so hard to change from within… the top has to be afraid to die when they give up power and violent revolutions from the bottom are often ending in a different but worse dictatorship. I don’t see America colonise Venezuela. Maybe they are coming up with new solutions. Sure, democracies can benefit from dictatorships, cheap resource etc., but they are also kind of annoying. Its not like democracies are really dependent on recourses. They can just decided to do whatever they want. Especially if they are as rich as the Americans.