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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 31 March 2015 09:02:28AM *  1 point [-]

The question was specifically about demotic dictatorships.

No kind of dictator has to generate democratic support. Demotic dictators are supposed to justify themselves by generating ideological support, but that doesn't actually distinguish them from real world monarchies, because of all the ideology about God Put Me on the Throne,

Monarchs had a lot less dissent to quash. For example, the dress code at Versailles required all men to carry swords.

OTOH, the Star Chamber.

Comment author: seer 01 April 2015 02:28:39AM 7 points [-]

Demotic dictators are supposed to justify themselves by generating ideological support, but that doesn't actually distinguish them from real world monarchies, because of all the ideology about God Put Me on the Throne,

"The People Support Me" is a lot easier to falsify then "God Put Me on the Throne", thus you need correspondingly more oppression to keep anyone from falsifying it.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 01 April 2015 09:39:03AM *  0 points [-]

Or you can manufacture consent, in both cases. Monarchies have not been free of oppressive violence, any more they they have been fire of memmetic engineering.

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