>If people do not like their government and the government does not provide peaceful ways for the people to get their way then the people can always take power

>If people do not like their government and the government does not provide peaceful ways for the people to get their way then the people can always take power by force. Alas, that is not true. The government always has a military with weapons far more powerful than the public (and the public in a dictatorship is usually forbidden from owning guns). Furthermore, in a dictatorship there is usually a significant minority that is given money and other privileges to support it. So the government usually can simply crush any rebellion in a very bloody manner.