Democratic governments tend to improve with time, albeit some more than others. The PFDJ regime gets more vicious and cruel, its guns at the ready to kill its own people at the smallest instigation, real or imagined, mostly manufactured. Compare what Face The Erespora feared a dozen Christmases ago about the danger awaiting Eritreans under a one-man dictatorship with the current dire situation. Are Eritreans better off than twelve years ago?