Quote:
Originally Posted by LordSquidworth
Passed by the House on 10/8/2009 and Senate on 12/24/2009.
Might want to grab a dictionary and look up dictatorship.
|
Dictatorship ruled by one party passed Obamacare.. the democratic party in the dark of night.. shoved down the throats of American people. Obama bypasses the congress, bypasses the Constitution.
I believe you better read about what a dictatorship is and find out Obama meets all the requirements of what a dictatorship is , including his tactics for leading his followers around by the nose .
dictatorship (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator, not restricted by a constitution, laws or opposition, etc.).
[21] Dictatorship may take the form of
authoritarianism or
totalitarianism.
Totalitarian dictatorships involve a "single party led by a single powerful individual with a powerful secret police and a highly developed ideology." Here, the government has "total control of mass communications and social and economic organizations".
[
Authoritarianism is a form of
government.
[1][2][3] It is characterized by absolute or blind
[4] obedience to [formal] authority, as against
individual freedom and related to the expectation of unquestioning obedience.
[5]
Juan Linz, whose 1964 description of authoritarianism is influential,
[6] characterized authoritarian regimes as
political systems by four qualities: (1) "limited, not responsible,
political pluralism"; that is, constraints on political institutions and groups (such as
legislatures,
political parties and
interest groups), (2) a basis for
legitimacy based on emotion, especially the identification of the regime as a necessary evil to combat "easily recognizable societal problems" such as
underdevelopment or
insurgency; (3) neither "intensive nor extensive
political mobilization" and constraints on the mass public (such as repressive tactics against opponents and a prohibition of anti-regime activity) and (4) "formally ill-defined" executive power, often shifting or vague.
[7]
Authoritarian regimes are also sometimes subcategorized by whether they are
personalistic or
populist. Personalistic authoritarian regimes are characterized by arbitrary rule and
authority exercised "mainly through patronage networks and coercion rather than through institutitions and formal rules."
[9] Personalistic authoritarian regimes have been seen in post-colonial Africa. By contrast, populist authoritarian regimes "are mobilizational regimes in which a strong, charismatic, manuipulative leader rules through a coalition involving key lower-class groups." One example is
Argentina under
PerĂ³n.
Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated and
centralized power maintained by
political repression and the exclusion of potential challengers. It uses
political parties and mass organizations to mobilize people around the goals of the regime.
[10]
Authoritarianism also tends to embrace the informal and unregulated exercise of
political power, a leadership that is "self-appointed and even if elected cannot be displaced by citizens' free choice among competitors," the arbitrary deprivation of
civil liberties, and little tolerance for meaningful
opposition.
[10]
A range of
social controls also attempt to stifle
civil society, while political stability is maintained by control over and support of the
armed forces, a bureaucracy staffed by the regime, and creation of
allegiance through various means of
socialization and indoctrination.
[10]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
