Stalin was by far my favorite dictator. Stalin, Hitler, and Napoleon are all examples of how authoritarianism will get you better results faster. It took the U.S. roughly 120 years (from the end of the Revolutionary War to the edn of WWI) to become a Super Power. Hitler pulled himself out of a economic depression and third world power status within 13-14 years and created an empire that spanned Europe. Had WWII lasted another year or so with Germany still in, the allies may have been done for. The Nazi's where very technologically advanced. Stalin did the same, but at the cost of more lives, and about double that number... however, Russia was also more backwards than Germany.
Augustus Caesar was the best 'ruler.' He concealed the fact that he was dictator well. Bush is pretty much pulling an Augustus... I just wish we had a better President to do it.
People say that America is great because of democracy, but America would be twenty times more superior within a decade under a technocratic fascist government.
~Sapper