Go back and see how the Hashemite royals in Jordan maintained their power over the years. And those people are considered modern, Western-friendly rulers.
‘Deal with it.’
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Read my prior post. Telling someone who never endured even five minutes of Saddam’s worst tortures to ‘deal with it’ is sick. Tell that to those who managed to survive, or to those who lost loved ones—not to execution, but to long, long, indescribably cruel & protracted torture. Saddam was a literal Sadist. Not a tough guy keeping a lid on his country. A literal Sadist. Let’s see you put yourself or a close relative in a position to experience even the slightest fraction of the suffering Saddam inflicted. Then you will be in a position to ‘deal with it’.
I decided to give you a slight clue. Just a very minor insight. As a young man, Saddam used to heat a poker up to as hot as he could get it. Then he would jam it through the midsection of a dog or a cat. The key was not to kill the animal immediately, but to torture it to death as severely & inhumanely as possible.
As an adult, Saddam went way beyond his ‘child’s play’ with dogs & cats. He did to men, women & children far worse. Far, far worse. I thank God Saddam is gone. God alone knows just how much I thank Him that Saddam is gone. The dogs & cats didn’t deserve it—but neither did the men, women & children. The monster is dead. Be glad about it.