You are indeed correct. Unfortunately the changeover has resulted in discussion being very dumbed down. I think much of the changeover has to do with people no longer using regular computers as much and instead using their phones.
Spelling and grammar has become atrocious. Responses sometimes have nothing to do with the OP, as it's easy to hit the wrong thing on those little screens. It does make it entertaining at times, however.....
The benevolent dictator is the best form of government. The problem of course is that there aren't any. Those who do not seek power do not attain it, and those who do seek it arent worthy of it. And welcome!
This topic could easily have its own thread in the appropriate sub-forum. That said, benevolent dictators aren't sustainable not because they become corrupt on their own volition but because they either have to become corrupt to survive or they perish. Just look at Sukharno, Mossadeqq, Allende,Torrijos, etc. If they insist on changing the economic/political structure to help the people and create a more just society then the robber barons quickly arrange a CIA-backed coup, an assassination or a plane crash to remove them. I think that's the real point.
A benevolent dictator can exist. But the benevolent dictatorship fades every year and every regime change, and eventually becomes a dictatorship. It's inevitable because of human nature, not some conspiracy theory involving the CIA.
No, definitely not a conspiracy theory: 'The CIA is quoted acknowledging the coup was carried out "under CIA direction" and "as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government" ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état "Sixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges that the agency was involved in the 1953 coup." https://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/?hpt=po_c2