Is a good dictatorship better than a bad democracy?

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by dictatorship. I think it is possible to have one good ruler who cares about his people and acts with their best interests and not his own. Not likely but possible, at least for a short time. But it's too easy for someone to become a dictator or tyrant, someone who uses oppressive and abusive ways to rule people and claims to be acting for everyone's benefit but only is interested in his own. But I don't think a democracy is much different. It's still people who claim they are acting for the greater good but for the most part are just after making life better for themselves. Man can't rule man effectively for everyone's good. He just can't.

When Fujimori was president of Peru, it was sort of like a good dictatorship. However, the opposition that wanted power kicked him out. Unless the dictatorship was ruthless, hense bad, they won't last.

I would prefer a bad democracy because being there a "democracy" we can and should always fight against what has gone bad in such a government and thus gain the true government we have voted for.
No there is no such thing as a good dictatorship, there is repression, killings and too many people thrown into jail for their believes.

What is a bad democracy? Is that when all of the people go bad?

neither democracy or dictatorship is good in my opinion... there will be people who suffer under both

Ask people in a third-world country who are so hungry for feedom they would risk their life for it. We never know what we have until we no longer have it.

No, it is not better. I`m telling it to you like a Russian woman, living in Russia that time when my country called the USSR.I still live in Russia and even our democracy is too young, it`s mucn more better than any dictatoship, especially it` can`t be good ever.

Anything good is better than anything bad. Whatever works best.

The problem with dictatorships is how to get the guy out of the seat before he starts going senile and believing the country is his own personal property.

"The ideal form of government is a dictatorship tempered with assassination."

in my openion democracy is good when there are firm and good leaders who can strictly deal with any issue or else its a waste...... for example the common wealth games in india which were held few months ago there was a lot of cooroption done by suresh kalmadi and no one took strict actions againt that and still many people in india suffer from lot of complications and manage a very difficult life style so for a good democracy we need to have firm and active leaders and on the other hand dictatorship is like ''i m the leader and u are the slave .....i m always right .....and all are wrong.......i command u obey.....like thingy.......so i preffer democracy coz there are advantages too ........as india is proressing so quickly becoz of democratic type of government.........not only india but most of the contries are enjoyig democracy......

"Good Dictatorship?", isn't that an oxymoron?

People, do you actually have the abillity to read? We were talking about a GOOD dictatorship and you guys are talking about Stalin etc >> Bad dictatorship.

You should be looking at the Roman emperors, like Augustus or Trajanus. They were actually dictators, but they were good for the people.

Democracy doesn't work: there's to much talking and no decisions are made. Besides, you could also just elect a 'dictator' for four years and then elect another one. Then at least something's happening.

For a while, perhaps.

is having a good person make all the decisions for you, without caring about what you feel, better than making your own plans and perhaps mistakes?

dictatorship is worse than democracy because its one person making the decitions for a whole country. in a democracy you have many different people standing for every kind of person and arguing whats best for everyone. in a dictatorship you handed down the power so you could be someone who has no idea what their doing and is ruling a country. in a democracy you elected who you think will make a differnce and make the country a better place for everyone and even though it may take forever to pass a law or for everyone to agreee on something its for the good of the people. dictorship does whatever the ruler thinks is best and doesnt hear imput from other people. democracy is deffintly better.