The right to vote is only really important to the individual when you are a person who the government is not doing well by. For those who end up being on the "good" end of things it's not important (that's why aristocracy tends to be okay with royalty - at long as it keeps them in power). The oppressed tend to like it more when the government changes.
The problem is, you can't be sure your dictators will be good to you or when they're really going away. But in a place where the government changes through scheduled elections you at least know it's going to change.
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Date: 2008-10-02 03:50 pm (UTC)The right to vote is only really important to the individual when you are a person who the government is not doing well by. For those who end up being on the "good" end of things it's not important (that's why aristocracy tends to be okay with royalty - at long as it keeps them in power). The oppressed tend to like it more when the government changes.
The problem is, you can't be sure your dictators will be good to you or when they're really going away. But in a place where the government changes through scheduled elections you at least know it's going to change.