What is dictatorship?

What is dictatorship?

Let's skip the academic and classical definitions of the classification of a form of political regime that has been widely studied, mainly in the era of exhaustively extended governments during the so-called Era of Dictatorships that was fashionable in countries since the USA with periods of autocratic governments such as: the Roosevelt era in the USA, and in Germany with Adolf, in Italy with Benito, in Portugal with Salazar, in Spain with Franco, in France with De Gaule, in Russia with Stalin, in Cuba with Fidel, in Brazil with GVargas, Argentina with Domingos, the list It's very big, Hand, in Indonesia, Yugoslavia, Chile.

What did all records of autocracy have in common?

The endless stay in power, and the form of its arrival prior to the eternal stay, is of less importance. Hitler, Roosevelt, Vargas were dictatorships, the difference between them is the way they came to power: some were elected, like Hitler, Roosevelt, and others were not directly elected or had a rigged vote.

So it can be easily concluded that democracy is not limited to the electoral process.

That simple.

The election is like a popular opinion poll to unravel and reveal the leader who is in the desire of the majority, and for this poll not to be rigged or distorted, the first step would be to prohibit the biggest and most perverse form of manipulation of the popular will that It is precisely electoral propaganda and its substitute, the debate between candidates.

Propaganda can be direct through publicizing the candidate's qualities, or indirect, speaking badly about opponents, or, with editorials in favor of their things and works that benefit the image that they want to promote indirectly.

So, as the election should cleanly determine popular preference, this process should be a survey like laboratory tests.

If an impatient and dishonest patient takes ten tests to detect a disease and in ten independent tests he has a positive result in nine of them, he can use the only negative result to precisely assert that he is free from the disease.

This is the case of a rigged election. I show a false positive.

A dictator does not come with credibility even though he came out of a rigged election, as he was not wanted he never achieves enthusiasm and true popular participation, so he needs to use strong repression to govern, and ends up in oppression and suppression of rights, for This is what the election is only legitimized if the result is a true positive, a false positive is not democracy in fact, just self-deception, a dictatorship ready to explode like a retarded bomb.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político