The Wannabe Tyrant
We, the People of the United States, need to prepare for the Tyrants amongst us
I saw this doc in my Netflix feed and thought I’d give it a try. It’s narrated by the soothing, masculine voice of Peter Dinklage. So up popped the first episode and within minutes, I was completely gobsmacked.
With a heavy dose of sardonic wit, Dinklage explains that there is a “playbook” for becoming a tyrant. And so, if you want to be a tyrant, here are the lessons and steps to take.
The episodes are sprinkled with on-point animations, and archival footage. The tyrants — some well-known like Hitler, Amin, Stalin and Ghaddafi — and others less known but equally horrific.
What is completely terrifying is that the “playbook” is being used NOW. Not only with thugs like Putin, Kim Jong-Un (a lot about this dynastic tyranny) and Xi Jinping, but would be tyrants…like Trump and DeSantis.
The similar techniques that this pair use NOW are really a wake-up call for all of us.
The world has always seen tyrants. In fact, check out this review of the current world’s crop of dictators: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/dictatorship-countries
But here in the United States, we have heretofore been able to avoid being taken over by a tyrant…even though Trump did make a play on January 6th. But will the USA also fall to a dictator. Check out this documentay series and decide for yoursel.
Thank you, Peter Dinklage, who is also one of the Executive Producers, for finding an entertaining, even humorous way, to educate us on the danger of tyrants.