Worst governments ever

[COLOC_Kid]

What do you believe is the worst government system.

 

[Kilolo]

Spoiler: absolute monarchy

 

[NotYourTypicalMan]

Government is trash, Government is only for hooman.

 

[witch_sorrowful]

Humans tend to dislike concentration of power in the hands of a few.

 

[AryaX]

Is power in the hands of the many better ? Which is worse, being oppressed by the many or being oppressed by the few ?

 

[COLOC_Kid]

Is power in the hands of the many better ? Which is worse, being oppressed by the many or being oppressed by the few ?

maybe... at least with the few you build a sense of community.

 

[WasatchWind]

What do you believe is the worst government system.

This is a complicated question. Do we go with obvious choices like facism or Soviet Communism? Is this determined by how many innocents they have killed? How much they infringe on their people's rights? Or is it determined by how well they governed - that is, their stability.

I think it is fair to say that my first two choices probably are the worst in that category, probably racking on China too. As for the last determinant - there are countries that have existed for barely any time at all.

While I view this as a rather cut and dry question, I see that sometimes, either jokingly or not, say "America" or their own country.

Despite what the news media tries to convince us here, I don't think America is at some risk of civil war. It is of my opinion that most 1st world countries are in a decent place, though every government is going to be flawed.

I sincerely hope that places like Myanmar will be able to weather attempts to suppress human rights, and change to give more freedom to their citizens.

At the very least, it seems that places like North Korea are becoming harder and harder to exist - even China modernizes, compared to North Korea that lives like its still in the 20th century. I hear a lot of predictions that the country won't survive the next few decades.

Perhaps I would pick north Korea. It is not the most evil of all governments that have existed, it is not the least stable - but it is the most a**backwards insane.

 

[BenJepheneT]

Every government system is terrible in some way. Hell, it goes against the nature of humanity in the first place. They're working towards a common good but who's to say what's right and best for each individual. You can't possibly be serious and tell me we can reach a common ground.

You put a free system where you give the civilians liberty, you're gonna have trouble within the community, since people have VERY different ideas on how liberty is to be achieved and maintain.

On the other end of the spectrum, you've got vehemently and violently enforcing YOUR idea for a perfect system, and anyone who disagrees- well, you get the drill.

My point is that there's no objective worst government system. There's only personal perspectives on the compromises those systems propose. Personally speaking, fascism's on the lowest of the low. Even discounting the moral dilemma of it, fascism is bound to topple one way or another. If you disagree with it, into the body pile you go. Even if you agree with it, there's no telling what the government will make you do to keep their ideal community going. Failure to upkeep your assigned post is as good as mutiny. And, when your government system leans more on "dispose those we don't like", those "people we don't like" are bound to strike back.

If you want to be absolute, you need an immaculate system with no compromises AT ALL. And as proven countless times, humans are not to be trusted with maintaining 100% productivity.

The system we have now? It's not good. It's fucking terrible, in fact. But it's the best we have to offer at the moment. In fact, there's no way of changing it at this point. Roots of power intertwine so deep that the system will stubbornly keep itself up even if it's running on fumes, because one falling cog can kill the whole thing. It'll doom us all back to monke; which isn't a bad thing, per se.

 

[KiraMinoru]

What do you believe is the worst government system.

The form of government that is a pyramid scheme. Oh wait, that’s all of them.

 

[CadmarLegend]

Spoiler: absolute monarchy

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Doraemon!

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

A tyranny in the form of a police state. Examples include China under Mao, USSR under Stalin, Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Philippines under Marcos, etc.

 

[Triskele_Lynx]

The really bad forms have something in common: authoritarianism. Whether it's illiberal left like Stalinism, or far right authoritarian like Pinochet or the Sauds, or theocracy like Iran, too much power ruins things.

 

[gaylolis]

i think the worst government is one that make you feel the most miserable, if you were to live there.

for me, it'd be somewhere like north korea and china. i think there's many other places where human rights are treated like garbage and most people could barely survive, but i don't really like to read other people's suffering and make myself feel like shit, when i can just read my wish-fulfillment power fantasy and imagine i'm a god.

 

[AKnightWithaKnife]

How about Somalia? The government is so shit that the military doesn’t even want to do a coup when people are begging them to