Autocracy is the norm, democracy the exception.
The latter flourished in the West for an unusually long time following the horrors of WW2 because there’s been, until now, a generation who witnessed the carnage first hand and were able to drum into the succeeding generation ‘never again’. They’re all but gone, the desecration is now ‘distant history’, and the only ones left with a tangible link to the war are those whose parents and relations fought in it or lived through it: the likes of Value31 and I, ourselves now in our 60s and 70s
So, we ‘boomers’ can at least understand and fear what’s happening today, while the younger generations are more or less unaware
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
The quintessential truism 