> Even dictators need to prioritize their actions. A bastardization of Andy Grove's famous words: "Only the paranoid [dictators] survive". You'd be surprised

> Even dictators need to prioritize their actions. A bastardization of Andy Grove's famous words: "Only the paranoid [dictators] survive". You'd be surprised at how paranoid dictators get. Every little sign of disobedience is magnified into a "threat". This is the reason why almost all autocratic systems end up devolving into police states with (usually) multiple large intelligence agencies keeping each other in check.