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Any kind of governance requires some consent from people, even if it is not in majority. A lone dictator with no support from the people fails pretty quickly ba

by liuliu 6y ago

Any kind of governance requires some consent from people, even if it is not in majority. A lone dictator with no support from the people fails pretty quickly based on our experience in the past a hundred years.

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swebs 6y ago
>Any kind of governance requires some consent from people Well no, the whole point of totalitarianism is that the people aren't even allowed a choice in the first place. A lot of people did speak out in Tiananmen Square and it didn't work out so well for them.
- liuliu 6y ago
  As it is hard to swallow for what happened in 1989, that was a fraction of people, not all people as a monolithic sense. And that fraction is not strong enough to overturn the existing ruling class with military support. Russian later did succeed at overthrown their government with military support.