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Arkitecht comments on Natural Selection of Government Systems - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Arkitecht 12 February 2015 01:40:45AM -2 points [-]

This article presupposes that history is not a factor in the selection of government by a people. The colonial history of Africa, Russia and South America make the populaces in said regions more likely to accept a strong central leader or dictator rather than a true democracy. This is because the herd population is historically used to -- and thus expects -- the same because of the group's psychological predisposition to said leaders.

Comment author: MakoYass 15 February 2015 12:32:55AM 1 point [-]

Where does it presuppose that?