Totalitarian Government Research Paper
Success of a Totalitarian Government
Totalitarianism is a political system where the leader of a state or country has no limit to his or her power and tries to control every aspect of people’s lives. Today totalitarianism is present in many countries around the world especially the Middle East, Asia, and South America. Some specific examples are North Korea, Iraq, and Cuba. All of these counties have dictators that oppress their citizens. Totalitarian governments successfully reign and oppress their citizens through fear, denying basic necessities, and illuding people to think they are working for the common good.
A successful totalitarian government uses fear as a method in controlling its citizens. They do this by publicly eliminating people that oppose the government or “step out of line”. By eliminating people who don’t conform, you impose a fear of rebellion, which means that the government can prosper for a very long time. In Schindler’s List whenever one of the Jews in the concentration camp did something that didn’t sit well …show more content…
Citizens of a totalitarian government often think that they are working to make their country more prosperous or helping the country win a war. In reality however the only person that is winning and becoming more prosperous is the dictator of that country. Citizens get paid very little or nothing at all, but they don't rebel because they believe it is benefiting the country. In Schindler’s List the jews were paid very little in Schindler’s factory, but they were grateful and insisted that they were “essential workers”. This method also explains why Nazi’s complied in the murder of Jews. They believed that they were doing it to protect the Aryan race and make Germany a better country. Often times in the movie the German citizens referred to the Jews as animals or scum bags. They didn’t regard the Jews as citizens or even as
Totalitarianism is a political system where the leader of a state or country has no limit to his or her power and tries to control every aspect of people’s lives. Today totalitarianism is present in many countries around the world especially the Middle East, Asia, and South America. Some specific examples are North Korea, Iraq, and Cuba. All of these counties have dictators that oppress their citizens. Totalitarian governments successfully reign and oppress their citizens through fear, denying basic necessities, and illuding people to think they are working for the common good.
A successful totalitarian government uses fear as a method in controlling its citizens. They do this by publicly eliminating people that oppose the government or “step out of line”. By eliminating people who don’t conform, you impose a fear of rebellion, which means that the government can prosper for a very long time. In Schindler’s List whenever one of the Jews in the concentration camp did something that didn’t sit well …show more content…
Citizens of a totalitarian government often think that they are working to make their country more prosperous or helping the country win a war. In reality however the only person that is winning and becoming more prosperous is the dictator of that country. Citizens get paid very little or nothing at all, but they don't rebel because they believe it is benefiting the country. In Schindler’s List the jews were paid very little in Schindler’s factory, but they were grateful and insisted that they were “essential workers”. This method also explains why Nazi’s complied in the murder of Jews. They believed that they were doing it to protect the Aryan race and make Germany a better country. Often times in the movie the German citizens referred to the Jews as animals or scum bags. They didn’t regard the Jews as citizens or even as