That of course is the entire point of
being a dictator, the deep suffusion of
satisfaction in tyrannizing one's subjects
to behave precisely as whims take the
one who decides who may live and who
will die. And who is there to oppose him?
Certainly not his staunch military owing
their status to their beloved dictator's
benevolence toward them. All the toys
of science and technology so beloved of
boys who will be men at his disposal as
he dabbles in the heady power that accrues
with ownership of weapons of destruction
that have few peers. A power enabling the
holder to taunt alarmed international onlookers
fearful of the child-in-a-man's-body's propensity
to raging tantrums whose threats bode dire.
As for the people over whom he governs to
whom he represents a dear leader only the
gods can remove they live enslaved to a grim
reality where the nation's sparse wealth is
apportioned toward their dictator's leisure
and pleasure where leftover dross may lead
to mass starvation. The entrapped ecstatic
over their lot in life extolled by their tyrant
must suppress their joy and delight, freeze
any compulsion to smile, signs of disrespect
punishable by life in prison little different in
fact from their ordinary everyday lives.