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Originally Posted by muthisdev
Because people like Erdogan and Putin actually murder their opponents.
Talk about western privilege.
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Erdogan trying to go from democracy to Despotism, Putin from despotism into a totalitarian state.
Despotism is a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. Normally, that entity is an individual, the despot, as in an autocracy, but societies which limit respect and power to specific groups have also been called despotic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despotism
Totalitarianism is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign, which is disseminated through the state-controlled mass media, a single party that is often marked by political repression, personality cultism, control over the economy, regulation and restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of terror. A distinctive feature of totalitarian governments is an "elaborate ideology, a set of ideas that gives meaning and direction to the whole society."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism