Problem
Dictators historically use a regime of lies to keep their true believers unconscious and or deaf to conscience. Autocrats corrupt select citizens whose interests are the regime’s, and vice versa. Against those who oppose the regime, dictators appear to align with anti-corruption laws against political opponents. Authoritarians thus use lies, half-truths, misdirections, and justifications shaped by regime loyal “news” and legal prosecutions presuming guilt against enemies of the state.
Working Solutions
Here are four public and private leadership prescriptions to help neutralize autocratic regime lies, which efforts have fallen into disrepair this century:
1. Develop and sustain popular, infiltrative messages and questions detailing authoritarian regime hypocrisies in-country;
2. Publicize western language media highlighting free nation governments’ support of citizen and immigrant freedoms while keeping a reasoned rule of law with wise discretion in enforcement, absent Orwellian distrust of the people;
3. Disseminate artistic influence via streaming video, movies, spoken, written, and still art that imply the beauty, creativity, challenge, and benefit of life with broadly shared freedoms and the rule of law with reasonable human discretion;
4. Free nation executive actions must bolster the credibility and earned track record of the broadly held freedom-ethos of constitutional republican democracies in practice.
