text: myths of dictatorships? 1)  dictatorships oppress everybody! -dictatorships still need public support just like under democratic regimes to get power. 2) dictatorships are inefficient. -dictatorships are the most efficient goverment since the 'dictator' passes policies faster than you can read this post, rather under democratic regimes where you have to go through layers of branches which will take forever.  what other myths would you like to add? dictatorships come to save the people from a greater danger. wrong! they come for dictators (and their business partners) to do their business. and when there's nothing else left to take away, they leave.  dictatorships (at least in latin america) were only about ideology. wrong! dictators (and their accomplices) stole money and properties from the people they captured, killed and took their children away from.  dictatorships are a necessary evil. wrong! in democracy, a bad government is taken away when its term ends, by voting for a better government. there's no need to call dictators in.  dictatorships have high moral standards, and act according to them. wrong! what's moral about overthrowing a democratic government, in the first place. and what is moral about killing, robbing, making people disappear, and all of that in the name of a supposed ideology?  dictators are justified in that they know better than the misinformed unprepared people about how to rule a country. wrong! even if people are misinformed and unprepared, that is no justification for going against their decisions. inform and prepare the people better, instead!