Dictator
What makes a dictator? Could anyone have seriously thought that in the 1930’s a tiny ex military man, not a very successful one at that, would take the world to war? Would anyone have thought Ferdinand Marcos would have denied his citizens in the Philippines the right to an election? No, no one thinks these things generally because they are not the sort of thing that happen in our country, whichever country we live in Few have started out planning to cancel our democracy. They get to the point where their actions are such that giving up power and the protection which comes with it becomes too terrible to contemplate. What is it which changes a democracy into a dictatorship? It is the absolute belief that the need of the party is greater than the need of the nation. Though, the leader will always say they are taking measures to secure the needs of the nation and protecting them from the dreadful possibility of someone else coming to power and messing everything up. How difficult is...