That is what has happened in places like Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, etc. Democracies, for the most part, became very corrupt, and we can see this happening in the USA with the republican party who have always worked to favour the very rich while abandoning the middle and lower classes. People become tired of having to work 2+ jobs everyday and still not having enough to send their kids to good schools, pay the bills, buy a home, take vacations with the family, enjoy leisure time while watching the government give more to millionaires who are able to do everything the middle and poor classes cannot do.
Opportunities to move ahead and realize the "American Dream" which has become nothing but a dream (as George Carlin explained it very well) are gone, then people's frustrations begin to feel that Democracy and Capitalism is a sham, that the only purpose for it is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, which in fact is what it is when corrupt people are in charge of government, so now people start thinking that maybe there is a better way, if the current one is not helping then lets go for the other. The worst of it all is that many of those people start thinking "if it doesn't work and it doesn't help me, maybe it will affect the rich the same as me, and they will be disposed of many of their riches and start suffering like the rest of us", which in fact does happen in dictatorships, all it takes is for the dictator to dislike a comment by one of those multi-millionaires and suddenly all their businesses and possessions are taken finding themselves and their families either in jail, some dead or migrating to another country.
No one is safe under a dictatorship, and I know because I know a lot of people who have gone through that in countries in South America, many of them had to live running because of persecution from the regime, their beautiful homes were taken, and everything they had they left behind. Just take a trip to Miami and you will meet doctors, engineers, people coming from high education serving you at the restaurant you have chosen to eat at.
People do not know what they are asking for, and like the saying goes "Be Careful What You Wish For."
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