Dictatorships and Democracies are opposites. Dictatorships are one person, totalitarian regimes. The citizens are isolated, without information and have no rights or freedoms. Many dictatorships are family rule nations, like North Korea, but they always begin with some problem or issue going on in the country that the dictator promises to solve. People fall for the promise that life is going to be better, but what they are really doing is trying to win support of the people to try to take control easier. If the people trust you they will support you. Dictatorships can start out as communist or socialist. This describes countries like Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela today. The process is always the same-tell someone that someone is to blame for their problems, and that life will get better when we get rid of or control these people. Once you convince someone that those people are to blame, they will actually help you control those people and support their actions. This is one reason why people are afraid of the word socialism. It has been used to place blame on groups of people while diverting attention away from what the government is doing, which is taking more control.
