As promised luvequ's, we continue our talanoa :
7. CREATE THE NEED FOR YOUR SERVICES
This is an old advertising saying -- where a need doesn't exist, you create one. The authoritarian invokes ideas about "necessity" and "accountability" & "transparency"to justify concentrating power in their few hands. Where have we heard this before I wonder ?
Authoritarians always speak of "efficiency" and "effectiveness" when seeking to concentrate power in themselves. They pretend that this is forced on them, when in fact they desire it.
No successful authoritarian will use any language other than that of necessity as they erode your power to think and act. To do otherwise is to expose themselves for what they are.
8. GATHER FOLLOWERS
This is so important it almost goes without saying. The autocrat seeks power, and power means followers. The authoritarian without followers is just another nutcase with bad ideas.
So the would-be leader must create dependence in order to bring people into the fold. To that end, the leader will not seek to facilitate personal growth among others, but instead promote dependence.
Witness all the army officers that have had so called "backpay" awarded to them. Villagers that have laid down at the feet of the regime on being told that they are to benefit from a bridge, new roads or a new church. Shameless ! And they don't realise they are being bought.
Authoritarians are very willing to offer their services to you, although they do so not to help you, but rather to help themselves.
9. LIE, LIE, LIE
The accomplished authoritarian must be able to lie with ease and with gusto. If you can't lie, deceive, and mislead, you might as well give up trying to be an authoritarian -- the nature of acquisition of power demands it of you.
If you want to be a would-be leader, you might want to practice lying, until you get the hang of it.
10. USE VIOLENCE WHENEVER YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH IT
Violence and authoritarianism go hand in hand. Violence, in all its forms, is the tool of choice for dealing with those who get in your way.
And there are different types of violence, to be used at different stages of power. Before attaining power, the authoritarian must rely on verbal abuse -- personal attacks, designed to quell dissent and silence opposition.
Later, once they're in power, the authoritarian will have a coercive apparatus, whether thugs, police, or troops, who will then be used to carry out physical and pyschological violence on dissenters.
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PART III on it's way .....
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