„You hated the government, so you overtrew it and replaced it with a worse governemnt.“ This was an internet comment on the outcome of the french, russian and iranian revolution and it seems also to apply to some revolutions in the 21st century.

Should some people keep their lesser-evil-leader if the risk of an greather evil is very probable AND to the condition, that the political prisonners shall be resesed, the money robbed from the people shall find its way back and oppresion shall be at least very limited.

In Venezia, the Doge was elected for life time, but he mosty only presided the organs of government without having the political powers to control their decisions. Perhaps this kind of social contrat shall applied in authoritarian regimes to make damage control and avoiding much more troubles with a risky revolution.

During the 19th century such kind of agreements between the reformers and the monarchs. The two parties gained and lost only bits and neither side was very happy about it. At least it seemed to many mouvement as the better option than the revolutions of 1848/9 where only very few realy succeded.

Julien Sita, 12th February 2021.