Sure, OK... no problem.
(But, it could be 'whatever *you* say', anytime.... All you need to do is to come up with evidence and or convincing rationale/logic to justify your postulate....)
Perhaps there really *is* an upwelling of popular support and affection for this particular Dictator, or Dictators in general, or Authoritarians (for what is a Dictator but an Authoritarian with power?)... just because I don't see it doesn't mean that it isn't there, creeping around in the seams of our societies, eating away at the foundations of Democratic ideals.
It is an old, old human instinct for some to desire a 'Strongman', an 'alpha dog', a Monarch to genuflect to... but I would sincerely hope that this old anti-Democratic urge is not making a comeback.
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"Timid men... prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous seas of liberty." --- Thomas Jefferson
"...the greatest threat to human freedom is the concentration of power, whether in the hands of government or anyone else... I am a limited-government libertarian." --- Milton Friedman
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." --- James Madison, 4th U.S. President, Political Observations, 1795
"Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, and the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches..." --- James Madison
"When the people fear the government, you have TYRANNY, when the government fears the people, you have FREEDOM" --- Thomas Jefferson |
