It would be irrational to treat democracy as a religion or a god, which had to be obeyed. There is nothing sacred with democracy. Democratically elected officials have made millions of mistakes during the past millennia. And democratic referendums have given ridiculous outcomes.
There may be many cases, where other systems would have served a much better purpose.
But the funny thing is that those cases seem very, very rare. It is not difficult to find examples of democracies making mistakes, but it is very difficult to find cases, where one could be certain that another system would have avoided those same or even worse mistakes.
When Sonthi Boonyaratglin, สนธิ บุญยรัตกลิน, takes power in Thailand, ราชอาณาจักรไทย, there is no reason to believe that this improves anything. Sure, some of the mistakes of Thaksin Shinawatra, ทักษิณ ชินวัตร, will be corrected. However, there is no safe guard against the flood of brand new mistakes Sonthi Boonyaratglin may commit instead.
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