It used to be said that "say what you will about the fascists, at least the trains ran on time". Over the years I've come up with a corollary to that: "if you're going to be fascist, the trains better well fucking run on time"
The idea being that if you end up taking absolute power, everything that happens good or bad is on you. Most of those governments don't operate that way, they will take credit for all of the good things happening and blame someone else for all the bad things that are happening.
Sort of like engineering the worst inflation at any point that I've been alive, and then instead of blaming their own policies which anyone with basically economics could have predicted, they blame Russia.
Doesn't just apply to governments either. I've seen authoritarian bullies in positions of power at work, and as long as everything is going fine, the authoritarian can take full credit for all the good things that are happening, but the moment that things aren't going good anymore everyone turns on that leader.
The idea being that if you end up taking absolute power, everything that happens good or bad is on you. Most of those governments don't operate that way, they will take credit for all of the good things happening and blame someone else for all the bad things that are happening.
Sort of like engineering the worst inflation at any point that I've been alive, and then instead of blaming their own policies which anyone with basically economics could have predicted, they blame Russia.
Doesn't just apply to governments either. I've seen authoritarian bullies in positions of power at work, and as long as everything is going fine, the authoritarian can take full credit for all the good things that are happening, but the moment that things aren't going good anymore everyone turns on that leader.
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