Being ruled a dictator can be very rewarding, or very dangerous. Being a dictator means that you own your own country. The dictator doesn’t have to agree with the government, the dictator completely owns everything. They own the army, the money, and all of the government. Being a dictator can be very effective because there is only one form of ruling, but can also be very bad of the dictator doesn’t care about the people and only cares about money and power. A dictator needs the social conditions, financial conditions, and political conditions to be poor and crumbling for him to rise to power.
To start off, dictators look for a country that has poor social conditions. Firstly, a dictator looks for a country that is lost. If a country is lost and a good leader comes along, the people will want to believe, so they will follow the leader. After that, a dictator will look for a country with a crumbling government. Thomas Jefferson once said “Most bad governments, have grown out of too much government.” He means that if there is too much government, it crashes, letting is be taken by someone like a dictator that
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Firstly, a hopeless country wants to believe that they are alright and that they will rise to wealth and power. Mark twain once said “It’s easier to fool people than convince them that they are wrong.” He means that it's easy to fool people right from the start, so once the dictators get support, the people already have their hope. After that, if the people have no faith, they are ready to believe anything. If a dictator comes along and excites the people and tells them what they want to here, they will be very supportive of that dictator. Lastly, if the country is ruined, the people would want to rebuild. If the person says that he will make the country rich and strong the people will believe too, because they want to believe. To conclude, people will follow what they want to
To achieve his goal of being a dictator, he felt the need to put a set
people decide that they want a dictatorship. If I was a ruler during the period of the
The dictatorship also manages to keep its subjects in line through brainwashing. As Prometheus writes, "Everything which comes from the many is good. Everything which comes from the one is evil. Thus have we been taught with our first breath." Also, as children, the ruled are forced to recite, "By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers," meaning that the only moral justification they have for living is service. By imbuing each subject with the moral premise that the "many" is always good and the "one" is always bad, the dictatorship manages to virtually eliminate any thought of opposition. In opposing the dictatorship, one is opposing the will of all people with one's singular will, and thus is evil. The moral creed that the dictatorship inculcates gives it a moral s...
rule of dictators do not rise to overthrow their government. Perhaps, Machiavelli might have been
In our society, people in positions of power are using their status and influence for personal gain. They often abuse their advantage. In current world affairs, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is using his power to scare a whole country into granting his personal wishes. In his position a dictator could accomplish a great deal possibly even guiding his country to wealth. Instead, Kim abuses his power to gain personal wealth leaving his country in deep poverty.
...e stop them not the enemy, not even some that they used to call allies. Is this why the world looks at dictators and can only see senseless and cruel mad man that will stop at nothing and will kill everyone that stands in there way, or were they just men striving for excellence that did what was necessary to survive and stay in there positions of power, even if it meant killing. Either way, it there actions shaped how we look at dictators now.
Dictatorship leaves every idea, every thought, and every possibility possible. It just so happened that one person that had the dictatorship this time, that one person, Hitler. Unfortunately, he had horrible intentions to begin with and had psychotic thoughts of how things should be. He realized he had the power, so he took advantage of it and used it, for his benefit and horrifically it worked. Hitler was so strong as soon as he took this role, he won peoples trust immediately made himself look perfect and reasonable. He led them to believe he was something and someone totally different than the real Hitler. He instantly became popular had many followers, the Nazis; which, I assume were the most scared of Hitler. I’ve heard my uncle say, “If you can’t beat them, join them”, and I figure this is how they felt, if they didn’t help they would be next. My grandfather used to say, “Get on board with the bus, if you don’t, I don’t want to hear it when the bus runs you
A common misconception is that a dictator can never come to power by means that are legal. This is not true. Adolf Hitler, the cold hearted dictator of Germany during World War II, is a near perfect example of how a dictator can form a regime legally. Hitler became a dictator when the Reichstag building was set on fire on February 27, 1933 while he was currently the only leader of Germany. A Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was tried and found guilty of the crime. Hitler used the countries fear of communism to suspend the German constitution and take executive powers. Some historians believe that a more likely culprit for the Reichstag fire was a Nazi obeying an order from Hitler himself to set fire to the building allowing him to suspend the German constitution and take the executive powers; however, there is no proof that this occurred. So, from what is provable, Hitler became a dictator by working inside of the law (“Hitler Becomes Chancellor” para.8).
...and the fear installed in the citizens. The most powerful people in the Middle East are controlling the government financially, so it makes it hard to stand up against their wrong doings. The citizens don’t have the protection they need to feel stable if they do go against their dictators. Another reason is that they fear the punishment they’ll receive if they do stand up for themselves. They would rather endure the pain of not having freedom than the physical pain they would experience for fighting for their freedom. The Middle East’s traditional ideologies make it hard for people to change their viewpoints. Religion is how people define themselves, so once they lose that they feel like they’ve lost themselves. All in all, authoritarianism will continue to exist in the Middle East because the citizens don’t believe that having a democracy is worth the fight.
Dictatorship is about power and having control over a country and be able to control all the people in it and be able to control what they believe and what they do. For example, Adolf Hitler he was the dictator of Germany and he was a very cruel one and killed many Jews. But he didn’t just kill Jews he killed anyone that disagreed with him and did not fit his perfect image that he had. Once he started saw that he was losing power her started killing even more people and he became more corrupt and he tried everyone to stay in power. Just like in the quote having the feeling of losing something changes who you are.
They like to damage people’s confidence, because they know they do not have good self-esteem. Also, dictators are very reliant on others, because they want people to do their dirty work. When two dictators come together, they can possibly go to war as allies together and make horrific changes in their surroundings. To conclude, the similarities, bullies and dictators seem to have comparable traits. But I believe a dictator is more menacing than a bully, because a dictator controls a country’s way of life, has thousands of supporters and they try to pick on somebody.
“We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike” (Ayn Rand, Anthem). If everyone is the same no one can be superior, no one will believe they are better; because once someone believes they are better than others they are harder to control. For any dictator to stay in power they need to be in total control of their people; and children are the best and easiest of individuals to mold their minds into what the dictator wants them to believe, think, and do.
Imagine yourself in a world where you are constantly having to fear not being able to ever be free from this cage that you've been wanting to get out of for so long. Now imagine that suddenly just being your real life and not just a world that was just imagined, it’s almost too unbearable to think about but this happens. The book “Before We Were Free is a good example of that. The books takes place in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century, when the Dictator at the time was Rafael Trujillo, or in other words El Jefe. Dictators are a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. Till this day there are countries that are still ruled by dictators, for example, North Korea However, having a dictator
A dictator is a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force, and generally not liked by the community. The major dictators of the 20th century left an infamous legacy behind them, all using similar tactics during their reign. Mussolini, dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1942, used his power to abolish all other political parties in Italy, thus making him superior. Hitler gained dictatorship in the 1930’s. In that time, he purged opposition and used his newly confiscated power to create his definition of superior humans, annihilating entire groups due to them not meeting his criteria for appropriate human value.
dictator into power, the US is making the people in these countries suffer and go through very