It is Good to be King

Joshua shares his experience in Chile and impressions of Augusto Pinochet (what a cool name).

Few dictators get to live past the term of their tyranny - much less resume their previous role as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the assume a new role as Senator-for-life. On top of all that he lived out his life in the nation he once ruled. That is simply odd for a dictator.

Despite the things he did that were wrong he had two things right - his opposition to communism and his view of "demonacracy".

Pinochet contended that “Merely formal democracy dissolves itself, victim of a demagogy that substitutes simple, unattainable promises for social justice and economic prosperity.”