Comment by pjmlp
1 year ago
Most dictorships started by the people in power streamlining decadent processes and burocracy, by putting into place the new regulations that would improve everything.
Until a couple years later on average, a state protection organism gets put in place to check those organisations are working as expected.
Eventually, the state protection organism gets a bit carried away on what they are supposed to be checking on.
I don't think so.
"Nearly half of dictatorships start as a military coup, though others have been started by foreign intervention, elected officials ending competitive elections, insurgent takeovers, popular uprisings by citizens, or legal maneuvering by autocratic elites to take power within their government. Between 1946 and 2010, 42% of dictatorships began by overthrowing a different dictatorship, and 26% began after achieving independence from a foreign government. Many others developed following a period of warlordism." [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship (see "Formation")
I might be wrong on being most, and eventually they might even be in minority, still some well known across Europe, have started with people that originally were democratically elected deciding that it was about time to change everything from inside.
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship (see "Formation")
Maybe worth considering:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
Also "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days":
* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...
> Nearly half of dictatorships start as a military coup
do you see jan 16 as a military coup? Coz i do. Just because the people involved are poorly equipped, and badly organized, doesn't mean it isn't.
We, as a nation, did not punish them hard enough. We as a nation, did not cut the hydra at their head, and allowed it to fester. It is done, perhaps, as a form of peace keeping and appeasement.
But history has taught us that appeasement does not work. So once again, those who failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
By definition it was not a military coup, because the US military did not participate in it.
Sure, some people were private militia members, but that is not the same thing.