After all, our experience tends to confirm that on one end of the political spectrum we have autocrats and tyrants – horrible, selfish thugs who occasionally stray into psychopathology. On the other end, we have democrats – elected representatives, presidents, and prime ministers who are the benevolent guardians of freedom. Leaders from these two worlds, we assure ourselves, must be worlds apart! It’s a convenient fiction, but a fiction nonetheless.
-Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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