When emperor’s, kings or Autocratic leaders are replaced by the people because of their failure in one way or another , the peoples think they can do better and they choose leaders after leaders and throw them out of office, repeatedly making the same mistakes of voting in unqualified fools who have no qualifications for leadership.
The Vedic way is to utilise the intelligentsia and educate people sufficiently based on scientific realisations of body , mind, and consciousness . Dualism and recognition of the consciousness and needs of all beings is paramount in creating harmony and building relationships with all countries, non encroachment is a Vedic principle.
Uneducated democracies are a failure, democracies have been infiltrated by the global conglomerates who fund parties and own media .
Better not throw the baby out with the bathwater..if the autocratic leader is a lover of his peoples and if he can listen carefully to the intelligensia who understand people , he or she is the best option…

If your leaders are full of hate , envy and bias and if they cancel those of the intelligentsia who understand the differences but also the oneness of society and countries, and if such unintelligent leaders ignore those intelligentsia and instead take council from those who are also, like themselves, full of envy , hatred and bias, then your countries are on a one way path to degradation ending up like street dogs .
Liberalisation of society by the libertines is not the way to resolve matters , that materialism is based on sentimentalist and sensual philosophising
The Vedic way strikes the balance in all affairs of state , family, and international concerns , its based on scientific knowledge of the conscious state of all beings and their specific needs .

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