Democracy: Why it might not appeal to some people

Let me set the stage:

• You are married and have kids.
• You believe strongly in a God, attend a church, and the leader of the church isn't the ultimate moral authority, but helps interpret the will of God.
• In the past five years, you've heard at least one suicide bomb, and at least one plane-delivered bomb detonate near you. At least one of your neighbors has been killed by a bomb in the last ten years.
• You have enough to eat, but you have personal memory of food shortages that threatened the lives of your family. Clean water is in short supply, but you have enough to drink.
• You have no deed to the house in which you live; it's yours by social convention. Deeds are literally just pieces of paper - meaningless. There are no mortgages or loans because no local bank lasts long enough to receive the payments.
• The government has only changed hands once since you were an adult. You have personal memory of the deadly fighting and purges that occurred in the wake of that transition. Your parents remember two more such transitions, each with their own similar bloodshed. Your grandparents would remember a couple more. This is "how things have been" for hundreds of years.
• The government currently in power is corrupt, but it is the "normal" kind of corruption: mostly nepotism. That is also "how things are". You aren't associated with the top of the social structure under the current government, but things have been much worse, and you'd rather play by their rules than incite further troubles and bloodshed via revolution.

That's your life.

Now imagine that the government of your country does something that irritates a foreign country. You have no idea what the problem was, and wouldn't have known it would be an issue if you had known. The irritated nation invades your country and removes your government from power.

You are given the opportunity to choose your own new government.

Which would you prefer:

1. Selecting a morally strong (and hopefully less corrupt) new government that will cling forcefully to power and thus provide many decades of stability. This will have the side effect of demonstrating to yourself, your family, your neighbors, and God that you wish to live peacefully with your fellow people in a morally upright society.
2. A new system where the government changes hands every 4 years according to the whim of the people, with all the associated tribulations involved with a change of government. This is the government favored by the people whose military just invaded your land and killed your countrymen.

I am not saying I agree with the perpetuate-the-problem choice many people make in circumstances similar to these. I am saying that I understand, and suggesting that members of a stable western democracy might lack the perspective of those people faced with such a situation.