Forgetting that voting is a method designed to eliminate the need for violence in transiting governing styles. The means of eliminating violence as a means to alter governing methods was needed because violence as a means of doing so is tragically indiscriminate and it makes the progress that a more civil society will be able to achieve, impossible. For example, just imagine trying to study genetic material while guns are being fired and bombs are going off nearby. Imagine trying to teach university lessons while armed men are shooting students and burning libraries and study materials. So, can you imagine what a change in our form of government from a peaceful democratic republic, nation of laws with all subject to and supportive of a Constitution and instead becomes a nation of sycophantic worshipers of a "Dear Leader" who takes "the intelligencia" as a threat to his reign? Exactly how much faith and credit would you place in the long-term appreciation or repayment of various securities? Obviously, under such an environment, it would be incredibly foolish to place much trust or faith in anything, which is why we observe that authoritarian governments do not do very well overall. While China is doing well with its semi embrace of capitalism, the flaws of its totalitarian system are beginning to show big time.
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