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Why do dictators need to find scapegoats for their nation's ills?
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Answer 1
Dictators can gain popular support by blaming the problems of their nation on a scapegoat. In general people like the idea of blaming their problems on someone else. That exonerates them from facing their own personal responsibility. If sacrifices need to be made, people usually prefer for someone else to have to make them.
Answer 2
It helps to unite the people against a common enemy, and add to their power.
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What does the word ills mean?
I personally think that ills are sicknesses,and ills are sicknesses,and feeling bad.
When was Explicit Ills created?
Explicit Ills was created in 2008.
Why do you think dictators need to find scapegoats for the nations ills?
There is no need to find a scapegoat for any problem if somebody actually wishes to resolve the problem.However, there are many governments, especially dictatorships, whose leaders do not wish to improve the lives of their inhabitants lest they be overthrown. (Educated people prefer democracies.) However, the leaders cannot tell their citizens point-blank that they have no interest in catering to the citizens' demands, since this would cause riots. So, the leaders claim that some third party is proving to be an obstacle to this realization. This allows for people to be angry at a third party and release the pressure against overthrowing an inherently unequal and illegitimate system.The secondary benefits are that:It makes it appear that only one obstacle separates people from their liberty and therefore makes dictatorship tolerable.It makes the dictator look like a powerful resistor to this evil and therefore an advocate for the people he is actually betraying.
What are scapegoats and what is the origin of the term?
Apparently it is derived from Jewish mythology from when a departing goat was blamed for the ills from whence it came. Thus also comes the contemporary deffinition: one who is blamed for the wrongs of others, it is inter-changeable with the Americanism 'fall guy'; the scapegoat can be one of a group of guilty people, but is the one to take the blame.
Is ills a word?
nope Yes , it is. It may be used interchangably with evils or problems, as in the ills of the world.
When was The Ills of Modern Man created?
The Ills of Modern Man was created on 2007-05-22.
What are the ratings and certificates for Explicit Ills - 2008?
Explicit Ills - 2008 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
What actors and actresses appeared in Ills - 2011?
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When was Pills against the Ageless Ills created?
Pills against the Ageless Ills was created on 2001-09-19.
How do you make a sentence using the word panacea?
One day they hope to find the ultimate panacea and cure all of the world's ills.
What were the ills of slavery?
anything like diasease
What are the present day social ills?
i believe it is selfishness.
