I tend to think of them synonymously sometimes, but there is still the fact that there have been ‘benevolent dictators’ in history. Not so for tyrants. :0)
That was quite well thought out.
The concept is actually an ancient one, finding its first voice in Plato’s vision of The Republic, Kallipolis.
Plato (and his fellows in the Socratic School) recognized that all systems, no matter how ingeniously conceived would suffer the twin decay of atrophy and entropy. Just so, we are living in a nation whose Constitution has atrophied from disuse and suffering the entropy of repeated corruption mounting to the point of cronyism with no recognizable similarities to the Free Market Capitalism that built the economy in the first place.
Only the steady hand of the Benevolent Dictator could keep the ship of state aright in times of great duress.
The problem with this is of course that those so disposed to becoming dictator are most often those least able to fulfill the role, especially from an altruistic perspective. Men like Thomas Nelson and Lucius Cincinnatus just aren’t all that easy to find.
Although ..... If anyone is so inclined as to offer me the chance to be Dictator for say - six months? - I’ll have the alphabet soup in Washington all standing guard on the Southern Border and what’s left of ISIS, the Taliban and Hamas will be trying to pitch their tents by driving the pegs through glass.
Oh. You can have your doctor back too. I promise.
{;^)
Every DICTATOR, through out history, will promise anything and everything to the population of that country. UNTIL THEY TAKE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THAT COUNTRY. Let’s start with Napoleon. Once Napoleon had eliminated or silenced all his detractors, he began to destroy FRANCE. Hitler and Lenin did the same, and look at what they did to their countries. More often than not, these dictators were freely elected by the people. Then an only then will they show their real “SELF”
Adds alot to my understanding. Thanks.