A dictatorship has the need to define an enemy or threat so that people are fine to compromise on self-determination. It can be another culture or corruption or

A dictatorship has the need to define an enemy or threat so that people are fine to compromise on self-determination. It can be another culture or corruption or anything most people will align themselves against. If that is absent, criticism towards government increases and its legitimacy is questioned if it cannot provide stable growth anymore. But I fully agree that democracy is still the most successful model and still striving. A mistake western governments often make lately is to be too afraid of it.