Do you think dictatorship is still possible in the 21st century?  

The world has seen enough dictators in Hitler, Mussolini, Idiammin. Whenever we see a video or a movie that depicts the way hitler toiled people, and killed the jews, Enough is Enough.

But we have to remember the fact that, if people are sure of somebody behaving like a dictator, the way of things have changed. Now in the 21st century it is possible to bring down the dictatorship within a few days/ months, if the people really feel so.

But this depends on the individual countries. Some countries still like being ruled by kings. You cant change them overnight.

Hope democracy prevails.

Sure it's possible, there are still dictatorships in the world today. Countries like Cuba, North Korea, and such are distatorships. Iraq, right until the war was a disctatorship, one could consider Iran a dictatorship.
Lee Frank was quoted as saying, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. And thomas Jefferson, one of our country's founders once said, "When the people fear the government, there is tyrany, when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Tyrany rarely comes crashing through the gates in a tank, guns blazing. It creeps in slowly and is often welcomed in the front door with a red carpet. It usualy arrives under the guise of security and protection, or liberation. Another quote apropriate at this time would be "Those who would trade their essential liberty for a little security, deserve neither liberty or security (Ben Franklin).
Any nation can fall to tyrany, any nation. I'm sure Germmans in the 30's never imagined their nation would become what it did under Hitler. Government must be kept in check by it's people, people should always be superior to government and people should always be willing to remind government of it's propper place. It is when we put our freedom in the hands of government that it slips away. The people are the ultimate guardians of their liberty and should never trust it to a governing body.

Yes it is possible to have dictatorship for next few decades. Perhaps you're not looking at one major point that drives some people i.e Religion. And there are many dictators who are speaking on behalf of god. And their preachers who also act like speaking on behalf of god. All those who pretend to be enlightened or guided or speak on behalf of god are manipulating people. So isn't this dictatorship ? Yes it is. And this one will not go away for next 100 years, as people love to stay comfortable in faith and delusion.

I prefer to take views of many before i perform some action, i validate and falsify many things (including mine) by constantly checking it by being skeptical. If you become skeptical then you resist dictatorship. This is what my observation is on this topic.

Yes I do believe it is possible for a modern world country to become ruled under a dictatorship. It is up to the people to stop it. Which in itself can be a problem when the media tells you what they want you to know(via the government) and a vast majority of people are stuck in their own little bubbles not paying attention to what is going on around them in the outside world. Whats even sadder is if you or I or anyone else for that matter try to tell some just to look around at the evidence they think we are crazy lost our minds or have become extremist ourselves.
Thomas Jefferson and many other founder fathers of America warned us of their fears with their new home in regards to government. Thomas Jefferson said many things about our banking system, tyranny, even our food and health care.
Dictatorship doesn't happen over night it is a process like any other but I do believe that it can happen and its unfortunate that it will in many countries if the people don't stand up together.
If you look at the majority of the dictators from the past such as Hitler. They were loved by the people at first because they had charm they were smart they turned a bad situation around for the better. It became easy because they had the trust of the people

I think the people are aware enough to prevent dictatorship ...

Hi Reyachan


Dictatorship.... it is completely impossible in deed. Now the system are run in a way that I think that dictatorship is completely impossible but I want to say that some day must come to the world when we find a rule free world. I even say that so called man determined boundaries and regime will be ended one day.

It is impossible in first sight. But start of a regime and boundary free world is already started. Just feel that where you you siting and where am I? But the boundary of the country and ruler of the countries has any role in this communication. Is not this a start of a boundary less world?So it is quite new concept but it is not impossible that one day must comes a world, where not ruler exist. And I think the self rules human being one day live in the regime free world.

the sanity and judgement of people are that prefer to dominate/r held with dictatorship....which still exists with some people in this 21st century...

Yes it is still possible. It is crazy but there will be dictators for ever, but this doesn't mean that it will be evil (which is immediately associated with it). As long as there will be humans there will be dictators. Same thing goes for war. Who said that? I think it was Einstein.

In 21st century it is very very shocking and unimaginable!!!!but again if the dictatorship(dtts) is for the interest of the country and its population of that county it is always WELCOME.
My country is divide into several States and one such State is under the rule of one particular political party which is holding the power for last 30+ years in a democratic way(the ground reality is that the influx of illegal immigration(ii) who voted them more liberally,then the we original countrymen)as a result of this influx we the original-countrymen(oc)are still fighting for the basic necessity like water,electricity,proper infrastructure,proper sanitation,our rightful-livelihood....
While the oc are still trying hard both illegally as well as legally to earn their livelihood in his own country but still lagging behind to those (ii)B'coz due to the fact of nexus that prevail between all the political party and those antisocial and of course these (ii).
None of the minister been in the history of our country are ever been proved absolute guilty in numerous financial scam and quite a few of them even have criminal background.....and these are the people who are running the government on a musical chair basis for the last 60+ years.THIS TYPE OF DTTS ARE SOFTER ONE AND MORE DANGEROUS ONE(WHICH ME MY COUNTRY MEN FACE) THEN THE HARDER ONE WHERE AT LEAST THEY RULE FROM THE FRONT WITH FULL AUTHORITY,THEY REVEAL THEMSELVES and you at least know who is the real enemy while mine is the case that I know what's the problem but cannot do anything.
We all know where the terrorist are hiding and who are feeding them but again you must ponder that the one of the greatest democracy is siphoning the hard tax as a gift to the country who is providing the safe havens to the terrorist.>another good example of soft dtts.
Nepotism is one of the big dtts that is why the whole world is keeping mum about Subas Chandra Bose, the reason; all the government around the world wants to live in peace without interfering another government.....good motto isn't it.
WE CANNOT GO ANYWHERE!!! WE HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE EITHER THE softer dtts or the harder dtts

There is always a danger of dictatorship. Any time people give up their independance or decide that government can take better care of them than they themselves can or don't keep an eye on their government. Promising to make every thing better. People that get a dictator are standing in line for a handout.