Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Demagogues undermine democracies and make Dictatorships

The tools of a demagogue always lead towards violence and dictatorship and the demagogue does this to gain power, money and authority and to take away power from the masses for self profit.

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Demagogue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Demagogues relentlessly advocated action, usually violent[4]—immediately and without deliberation. Demagogues appealed directly to the emotions of the poor and uninformed, pursuing power, telling lies to stir up hysteria, exploiting crises to intensify popular support for their calls to immediate action and increased authority, and accusing moderate opponents of weakness or disloyalty to the nation. While all politicians in a democracy must make occasional small sacrifices of truth, subtlety, or long-term concerns to maintain popular support, demagogues do these things relentlessly and without self-restraint.[5]
Demagogues have been found in democracies from Athens to the present day.[4] Democracies are instituted to ensure freedom for all and popular control over government authority; through their popular appeal, demagogues exploit the freedom secured under democracy to gain a level of power for themselves that overrides the rule of law, thereby undermining democracy.[6] The Greek historian Polybius thought that democracies are inevitably undone by demagogues. He said that every democracy eventually decays into "a government of violence and the strong hand," leading to "tumultuous assemblies, massacres, banishments."[6]

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