User blog comment:Eustass el kid/The Real Doflamingo/@comment-1595565-20130424004141

While what you say is true, you must ask yourself if that can outweigh all the bad things you know he did. It makes you wonder if there are two sides to him. On one side, Donquixote Doflamingo: A (former) Shichibukai and the beloved and benevolent (former) King of Dressrosa. On the other side, you have Joker, the black market kingpin who finances psychopaths like Caesar Clown and provides him with test subjects. It seems to me that the people of Dressrosa are aware of the elephant in the room regarding Doflamingo's illicit activities, but choose to ignore it. Just look at how hard Franky got glared at when he started talking about the SMILE factory in the colosseum stands. People were getting angry, and the soldier guy even said that it was taboo to talk about things like that. Doflamingo seems to have a hold over the people and they choose to ignore it because why ruin a good thing. It almost makes you wonder about his status as king. Is there no pandemonium because Doflamingo controls the flow of outside information or is it because someone immediately took his place after abdicating. Notice that the people haven't even spoken about Doflamingo himself, nor mentioned politics of any kind. It makes you wonder what kind of veil Doflamingo has over Dressrosa.