Dictators are able to rise to power in Nations that have suffered economic and political instability and tragedy. Dictatorial regimes are characterized by a lack of a democratic or republic government with one leader. Dictatorships have appeared all over the world at all different times and often lead to military conflict, poverty, and extremism. Many authoritarian dictatorships still exist today. These tyrants come to power using a variety of methods. They exploit this instability by gaining key supporters, creating an enemy, suppressing human rights, and using the previous governments to rise to power in democracies.
Instability is the underlying factor that allows dictators to rise to power . This is how Hitler rose to power. According
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A dictator must secure the key leaders of a country. Dictators must do this because as political scientist, Bruce Bueno points out,” One man doesn't rebuild roads, enforces laws, or invade countries”(2:12). When dictators take control they must promise these keys to power some form of wealth to keep these people on their side. That is why in dictatorships the wealth goes to these key people to keep this dictator in power instead of the nation. Distrust in the current government by these key people is what allows a dictator to take over in the instability. However, USC professor, Alastair Smith argue that if tyrants pay their keys to power too much they could break apart a finance their own revolution(3). That is why totalitarians kill their keys to power the moment they become useless or unloyal. If authoritarians don't pay important supporters enough another aspiring dictator could offer to pay them more and take the seat of power. Moreover, Idi Amin used these rules in Burma. Political scientist,Mark Van Vugt, points out,” Idi Amin took over Burma by disarming the people and butting up the military”(7).He secured his keys to power in an unstable country. He used the instability to gain the support of the military which made it significantly easier to take over. Comparatively, Lenin also used this strategy to take over the Soviet Union. …show more content…
As Jennifer Gandhi states,” It’s often by the hands of the very people who are worried about being oppressed by the government that allow the rise of these dictators”(45). In Nazi Germany Hitler was first elected as prime minister of Germany. Than, the people of Germany allowed him to become Fuhrer under the threat that the current government could not protect them. The lack of authority and the distrust in the government had in the Germany's economic ruin is what allowed for Hitler to take power with the support of the people. In addition, 21st century dictators have been able to find their power in democracy. Experts on the topic have expressed that regularly elected officials have demand power in order to deal with larger problems that are often caused by the government(Freeman). In Venezuela Hugo Chavez was originally elected into his position but sought more power in order to fix the country for the people. In his quest for absolute power in the country Chavez has justified his power in fraudulent elections. The lack of structure in Venezuela has allowed for this to happen with little resistance until now. The regimes were able to survive with the justification of a democracy and a lack of organized
In today’s world, there are several types of governments that control their countries. There are democracies, dictatorships, republics, monarchies etc. Absolute monarchy was a very common form of government centuries ago. Throughout this time period, many leaders, dictators, monarchs made mistakes that the government looks at today. The abuse and misuse of power by absolute monarchs inexorably led to the rise of modern democracy. This is shown through leaders abusing their powers as absolute monarchs, the unreliability of monarchy, and corrupt governments.
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...
All people have power, some people are just more powerful than others. Having power is the ability to create change. Examples of power being used wrongly is during the French revolution, and the residential school crisis. During the French revolution, two examples were shown of people abusing their power. King Louie XVI raised taxes so that he could buy things that he and his wife Marie Antoinette wanted, and took away rights from the third estate. In the residential schools crisis, the teachers, priests and nuns had power over the students and abused the students in different ways. Superior people take away the rights from those who are below them, but they end up corrupt.
Throughout history dictators have used “The Prince” has a guidebook on how to get and maintain power. Joseph Stalin used fear to rule the Soviet Union. Anyone who did not agree with his ideas were either executed or send to labor camps. He is said to have killed millions of political opponents.
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).
Bullies vs. Dictators When we hear the word “bully”, we normally think of little kids picking on other little kids. However, though bullying is an adolescent phase as well, grown adults can threaten other adults, too. On another note, a dictator, which seems to be an adult bully on a larger scale, misuses their power and controls a nation with a posse. They mostly use violence in order to scare citizens into changing their ways of life. Bullies and dictators are very similar because they use violence, they feel superior in their position and they tend to have their own cliques but they’re different in degree.
“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
Power is a very interesting thing to hold. Many good-natured men have been destroyed by power and turned away from their morals as a result. When giving a man absolute power, it’s ingrained in the human brain to take it to a new level. This ideal is present in every type of government, regardless of whether it’s a dictatorship or a government supported by autonomy. Modern day government suffers from this power hungry greed.
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.
Around the 20th century, the end of the First World War cleared the way for the formation of democratic regimes. Why they had not been successful, why the people didn't use the opportunity to establish a democratic political system and why did the dictatorships appear, is still unclear, but it is a very discussible subject. The decisive role in these processes was the human being. It was the object of the cause, but on the other hand he was also the subject - executor of all the problems as well.
Weak and failed states share many common characteristics. One of the most common features of a weak state is the presence of persistent violence. This violence is in the form of civil wars and civil unrest, this is an indicator that a government has lost legitimacy as well as control over some parts of territory. Other features include a weak bureaucracy that is very susceptible to corruption especially corruption from non-state actors such as terrorists and warlords. As the government’s power and influence continues to decline, citizens turn to these non-s...
dictator into power, the US is making the people in these countries suffer and go through very
In his book International Politics on the World Stage John T. Rourke (2008) states that governments range from the strict authoritarian at one end of the spectrum to a completely unfettered democracy at the other end (p. 78). His definition of an authoritarian style government is a “political system that allows little or no participation in decision making by individuals and groups outside the upper reaches of the government” (p. G-1). Those of us who live in a country that has a democratic government may find it difficult to understand why people who live in countries with authoritarian governments do not revolt and change their system of government, but in fact a truly democratic system of government is a relatively new concept in the age of man.