The new Netflix documentary strikes the perfect narative of black comedy & dramatic tone in this new documentary, but at the heart of it lies a real life guide to becoming a tyrant. So lets take a look at these scary tactics, dont try this at home:
- A tyrant believes they can fix it all
- Buy loyalty with bribes
- Choose a scapegoat
- Start a war
- Believe in your self
- Control the media
- Have a purpose/destiny/mission
- Outrage sells/ have a message
- Their enemies are your enemies (intellectuals, deplorables, loose women, immigrants, liberals)
- Have common grievences with the people
- Be a man of the people ''I belong to the people''
- Brand your movement with a logo, uniform to create loyalty
- Build your squad
- Choose when to strike to become ruler
- Be the underdog
- Consolidate power
- Crush your rivals
- Establish dominance
- Be everywhere by using informants
- Nationalise resources / oil, gold, gas
- Control trade
- Keep rivals scared and off balance
- Everyone is expendable
- Have the masses fear you
- Conceal your brutality (be a peaceful country who dont violate human rights)
- Weaponise the laws, weaken the institutions so you can control the government and the judicial system
- Torture enemies
- Control the truth
- Rewrite history
- Censor everything
- Censor books
- Have things subjects cant talk about
- Seduce journalists, celebrities, writers & politicians who will help your cause
- Destroy religion and replace it with your own new traditions
- Corrupt science & ban it
- Eliminate trust so people snitch on each other. Traitors & conspirators
- Redefine truth
- Be THE movement
- Create a better world for your country
- Be the law; limit rights that people enjoy (discos, booze, free speech, unions, strikes)
- No elections, positions of power go to regime loyalists
- Build your legacy, create monuments
- Indoctrinate the youth
- Write your own bible
- Public executions
- Put women in their place
- Export your revolution as a global movement
- Dont go soft and bring in freedom & open reforms, stick to your guns
- Remain in immortal total power
- Cult of personality, a God of wisdom & virtue
- Become God like
- Regular political purges, kill your rivals
- Isolate your kingdom, Junche & self reliance
- Dynastic rule, keep your family in power
- Kidnap people who are valuable to your country
- Assert your divinity & make a myth about your self
- Keep the people starving so they cant rise up
- A country at war needs to stick together & sacrifice
- Go nuclear to protect your regime with scientists, uranium, facility, equipment, money & ICBM
- Fund your regime with money laundering, drug smuggling, counterfit products
