The irony of an benevolent monarch is that they are most likely to weaken there own power because they consider it better for the people they rule.

@@kolamoose8717 true

The King of Bhutan, the Great Dragon, is blessed by the Great Buddha to lead the people of Bhutan. No western power can take that away.

Well the Nepali Speaking Bhutanese diaspora would not say so.

Good leader for some group while being a dictator and expelling minorities out from the country to implement and maintain a strict system just like the Nazis

And many parties are regional interest parties, not really national interest (e.g. Tamil-specific parties)

The US has dozens of parties as well

@@space__idklmao Only two are actually in contention

@@pragalbhvashishtha7711 the Libertarians won a whole percent of the vote

Yes but his alliance got actually more than 50% and India is not a system like the US. India actually has the system where a coalition has to have at least 50% to be able to claim majority unlike US where even a person with 40% can be majority. So no. The coalition as a whole had a lot more than 50%. The party individually had 30%.

you can have regular revolts i guess

@@Mohammed8778 **laughs in French**

Also a benevolent dictatorship is far more unstable (see cgp Grey's video about the rules for rulers).

Someone can do a lot of good without term limits, checks on power, a free press to criticise everything they do, independent courts, and the hassle of elections. They can also do a lot of harm. It's a little disappointing that the most stable and productive systems of government tend to be based around preventing the harm of the actions of leaders rather than empowering them to do productive things. Human nature is what it is though.

Churchill sounds like an egoist

DirtOfTheGods he was evil. But had some knowledge

Fred Fèteira In what way was he evil?

*Black and tans and Gallipoli intensify*

@Voulty He was a huge racist and because of his views millions of people in English colonies died of starvation and preventable disease. He was a nationalist, and mentioned that he might have admired Hitler's Fascism under different circumstances. The only good thing about Churchill is that he just so happened to be an enemy of the Nazis and a friend of the USA. He might be remembered more like Mussolini or Stalin if Britain's political affiliation was different.

I've never thought about this

@Josh K republics are the worst.

@@kamikazecat6662 a democratic republic is currently the richest nation to ever exist

kazuma neetking By what metric? The United States’ population is full of poverty

@@Wiggyam I think GDP and if you look at poor Americans their still more rich then poor people in other countries because of the definition is changed. In the USA the average citizen earn I believe around 60,000 to 62,000 USD per year which means poor people can mean 30,000 USD per year in earnings in the US. In other countries average can mean like 3 dollar per day, seriously, maybe not even 1,000 USD per year. Looking at counties in actually poverty, "poor" American live better then average or middle class and even "rich" people in other countries because the meaning of poor is change.

what if in a few years the next President of the People's Republic of China decides that Republic of China has no right to control Taiwan, and sends military force through South China Sea to take possession of the island the same way Russia has taken control of parts of Ukraine? this would be a disturbing international event, the current chinese leadership would not do this, but noone knows what can happen in the future

They won’t do that as he US supports Taiwan Militarily

no it is possible because taiwan is not a member of the UN

@@tacokoneko they are an observer member and are still fully recognized by 20 or so international governments including the US (and partially by many others). They are technically a member of the UN as well since they are considered China still but their government is not despite being a founding member of the UN.

"They are technically a member of the UN as well since they are considered China still but their government is not" well that is a primary concern, it seems very possible a Chinese administration in the future with different things happening in other parts of the world might annex Taiwan and when accused say "What is the problem here Taiwan is part of China? Nothing has changed". I particularly think this likely if some conflict or other crisis were to arise either within Taiwan, or in a different important area of the world. A future China might make an opportunistic move when the rest of the world is distracted or they perceive the RoC is weakened. It is important to note this is precisely what Russia administration, Putin, did to Ukraine. At the same time as ISIS was destroying and seizing large portions of Iraq and Syria, and western powers were trying to do something about it, and simultaneously there were riots and unrest against the government in the capital city in Ukraine, Russian forces made the move to swiftly infiltrate Crimea and smoothly take over without resistance. China is a very large, powerful country with a decisive central government, and Taiwan is very small. 16 maybe 20 nations is really not a lot of recognition especially if you are RoC and worried about such a threat. Under the right conditions I think a future Chinese government might seriously consider making a "coup" or whatever, to give them finally victory over their old civil war enemy. I think all it might take is an excuse; RoC should be extremely careful and delicate with their military, for example, because it is easy to imagine a bad situation, if a RoC ship were near the wrong island in the South China Sea.. China has done away with the "One Child Policy". But can we be so sure they will get rid of the "One China Policy", or will they make use of it someday..?

johnotm That’s mostly a result of Japanese company culture. Being an office worker in Japan is probably one of the worst things you can do.

lmao

Imagine this in the US

not usual thing in japan(some companies force workers to vote communist party but its a rare case)

not every, most southern and midwestern states are usually republican

As a Singaporean, it's more of just that the government is too good, and since our population is aging and very grateful to the govt, we don't really change government.

@@tyger6688 God bless.

@@tyger6688 When you can actually trust your gov. Man i envy you

I’m from N. Ireland dude what would you like to know

@@eb18574 hella late but do N. Irish think about reunification?

@@efrenyalung1348 I think it's vastly different depending on who you ask and what their background is. You're more likely to find that someone who is Catholic will support reunification whereas a Protestant would most likely support the current Union with the UK. I do believe that massively simplifies the situation but that is the usual premise. However overall I would say the people of NI are majority unionists as, the Good Friday Agreement states that if the majority supports reunification then they can reunify.

@@owentp8793 I see, thanks for your input on a national situation not seen anywhere else really that I'm aware of.

Efren Yalung after brexit there was uncertainty among the community there as we voted well in favour of remaining in the EU. Many moderates on both sides of the sectarian divide would have thus been more likely to support reunification. Many feel alienated about Westminster’s lack of interest in ni highlighted by the fact boris Johnson replaced a well liked secretary for ni in Julian smith with a completely Unknown figure in Brandon Lewis. Overall I would admit there is still a slight Unionist majority but undoubtably the younger generations are more likely to be in favour of closer links to the republic.

Singapore actually ranks higher than HK in the Democracy Index. Singapore is categorised as a flawed democracy like Israel, Belgium and India while HK is categorised as a Hybrid Regime like Tunisia, Bangladesh and Pakistan

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Sounds like centrist propaganda to me

@@lain7758 😐

@@forest3945 centrists are the most annoying, simple as that.

True

Japan too

No way

saudi atheist Ever heard of the lakhmids?

Al-Jumaeyli Al-Qaysi Al-Dawseri الدوسر Ahvaz also

It's a common misconception here in the west.

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A Brief History Darragh see cummunism works

Lordparshnipz57 this is a joke right?

Mr. Vines look at my spelling

Cyprus also elected a communist leader

Chile also voted a communist leader (which was overthrown by Pinochet). I also think Paraguay elected a commie once.

Alex good call

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Alexander Wijaya It is because the Prime Minister role has no term limit in India, so someone can technically become a dictator if he/she had a cult following. However India's democracy is technically better than most Asian "democracies", since it is an actual democracy with legitimate elections. Obviously it has more corruption than developed Asian democracies, however it's democracy has actually survived throughout the years.

@@KrishnaDasLessons Term limits aren't solid indicators of a democracy's legitimacy, though, especially when they're Parliamentary ones (like in India). Israel, for instance, has the exact same lack of term limits on Prime Ministers. Arguably, they're _less_ democratic, since their elections are based on a closed-list proportional representation system (meaning citizens nationwide vote for a party and not a representative, with the parties already deciding which candidates will become reps). At least in India, the PM can _theoretically_ lose his/her seat during a general election. But let's use a 'full democracy' (according to most, Israel is a flawed democracy) as an example of how an absence of term limits aren't a negative. Iceland, the Netherlands, Germany, and practically every parliamentary democracy in the world doesn't have a set term limit for their heads of government, and no one argues that their democracy is flawed because of it. The truth is that in parliamentary democracies, parties _should_ shuffle out leaders that the public don't want, because it'll reflect in their vote counts during elections. Basically, the minute they massively lose an election (like the INC did in 2014), the losing party usually takes a long look at itself and tries to fix what made them unelectable. The INC didn't really do that- Rahul Gandhi is still the party leader, despite presiding over what's essentially an electoral landslide.

Alexander Wijaya Another issue is the fact that many of the candidates get pretty bad, however they still get elected.

@@KrishnaDasLessons 'Bad' candidates are a matter of opinion, though. A left-leaning American that supported Bernie Sanders could easily make the case that both US presidential candidates were 'bad'. That doesn't mean they didn't have popular support from large segments of society. If you win an election without vote-rigging, then it's a valid election. Being a morally reprehensible person doesn't change any of that, and shouldn't affect an election's legitimacy.

The german system is perhaps the best we have currently. A small party can still have representation if they get a few minimum seats or votes while the larger parties are divided on proportional votes. This solves the issue of a party with 37% votes having 66% of the parliament (rough figures for the current government) while the main opposition with 18% votes only has 9.5% of the parliament.

eric yun lol what

@@ericyun980 fuck you and fuck persia

Guido Mista mad?

@@_l_e Someone's pissed ye?

to be honest only the west side of Iran is Arabic the rest is persian or other ethnicities

Not really because that was Asia only.

@@noob_donate_plz826 😁

@@noob_donate_plz826 😶 India is much larger of a democracy compared to Pakistan. Heck Pakistan is not even a proper democracy India can't be ignored in a video talking about democracy

doesn't want? wow super ignorant! sure people don't want stuff or a life, lmao

I'd be less kind to first past the post than toycat tho.

Continents? Really

Ha that's a good joke

Australia is not asian, they’re in their own continent

Oceania exists

Rightly said... There is a lack of research by toycat which usually happens when people talk about India and its Political system

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Well, Iran is part of the Arab league

I hope you're not serious.

@@bluespawner2119 nope they are not.

@@bluespawner2119 I hope you trolling cause honestly its not even funny!

@Pro Semite 😂

@Pro Semite 😂 I always get confused by the name! South and north is much easier

"Unfortunately"? Communism Is Great!

@@aarongaming-tc7lc ?

I had heard a similar but different saying, which states that power itself doesn't corrupt, but it attracts those who are.

He comes across as quite ignorant on a lot of this. Typical geographer ignoring history

@@trebucheguevara1052 he is way too ignorant in every vedio when it comes to India.

Adwait Sathe but the thing is BJP alone (not even including NDA allies) won more than half of the seats. Considering that only 31% of the people voted for them, this doesn't seem fair innit? Especially when the country's headed to barbaric ways. But musing or rejoicing over it is of no use now as the elections aren't far away.

PAP has been there from the start so yea XD though a lot of people who vote for opposition probably do it for fun or they actually want to vote them

@@koifish4276 When people do vote for the opposition, it's generally to make the PAP wake up. No one actually wants to kick the PAP out of office.

@@christiansee2500 yeah but see i did mean the vote opposition for fun like my grandfather just voted opposition for fun

One of us One of us

I'm Irish. My 6th great grandpa was Irish 😁 I can trace family tree to b.c times and I'm related Adam and Eve (they are my grandparents)