And the reason is -- and I hate to say this -- the leftists and the Democrats have established an ideocracy and it&aposs populated by fools and naives and intellectual pickpockets.
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In a totalitarian state or an ideocracy, individuals may develop a closed mind and an authoritarian personality, making them more likely to resist threats to the incumbent regime.Piekalkiewicz and Penn, The Politics of Ideocracy, SUNY Press, 1995, p. 45. PsychologistsRobert Alter, "The Masada complex", Commentary magazine, 1 July 1973.Jerrold M. Post, editor, The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders, University of Michigan Press, 2003, p. 345.
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The ideocracy may split into 'warring camps'. It may be ended by a military coup, as in Peronist Argentina. There may be a popular rebellion. The economy may stagnate, as demands exceed ability.
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According to political scientists, in an ideocracy there must be a ruthless charismatic leader: "the leader is the movement",Piekalkiewicz and Penn, Politics of Ideocracy, State University of New York, 1995, p133 and all individuals are required to submit to, and worship him.Erich Fromm, The Sane Society, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955, p. 237. "Followers who lead barren, insecure, frustrated lives obey the leader, not through faith in his vision of a 'Promised land', but because he leads them away from their unwanted selves".
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There may be external attacks by other states which fear the spread of the ideology,Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz and Alfred Penn, The Politics of Ideocracy p149-53 A further possibility is peaceful erosion. A new generation matures which is less fervent and more tolerant of pluralism. Technological developments and artistic expression (for example, the plays of Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia) erode faith in the ideology. The leadership become a less-effective self-serving, careerist elite.
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Ibn Khaldun observed periods, following 'expansion to the limit', when 'the habit of subservience' generated 'lies, ruses and deceit', and possibly a 'split in the dynasty'.Muqadimmah, Routledge, 2001, p255 According to Paul Kennedy, 'Great powers in relative decline instinctively respond by spending more on 'security' and thereby…compound their long-term dilemma.'Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers. In the case of an ideocracy, Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz and Alfred Penn see self-destruction as a factor in ideological stagnation.
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La luz que agradezco a Rafael Gambra, [in:] Anales de la Fundación Francisco Elías de Tejada 10 (2004), p. 180 In case of Spain the tradition is embodied in hereditary monarchy as opposed to elective heads of state,he viewed elective leadership of state as hostage to ideocracy, Bartyzel 2015, pp. 132-3 federative structureAyuso Torres 1998, pp. 310-311, Manuel Martorell Pérez, La continuidad ideológica del carlismo tras la Guerra Civil [PhD thesis in Historia Contemporanea, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia], Valencia 2009, pp. 407-9, Bartyzel 2015, p.
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For example, in Poland, according to Piekalkiewicz and Penn, communist ideocracy failed in 1980; the recognition of Lech Walesa's Solidarity Trade Union led to a military coup and authoritarian military rule. According to Sabrina Ramet, regenerative changes occurred in Yugoslavia in the 1980s when the communist ideology was replaced by a nationalist drive for a Greater Serbia and by an anti-bureaucratic revolution in support of Slobodan Milosevic.Sabrina Ramet, The three Yugoslavias, Indiana UP, 2006, p. 322. The Young Turk coup of 1908,Tony Barber, 'Decline and Fall', review of Shattering Empires by Michael Reynolds, Financial Times, 4/4/2011.
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The revolution ultimately led to the establishment of the future Soviet Union as an ideocracy; however, the establishment of such a state came as an ideological paradox, as Marx's ideals of how a socialist state ought to be created were based on the formation being natural and not artificially incited (i.e. by means of revolution). Leon Trotsky said that the goal of socialism in Russia would not be realized without the success of the world revolution. A revolutionary wave caused by the Russian Revolution lasted until 1923, but despite initial hopes for success in the German Revolution of 1918–19, the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, and others like it, no other Marxist movement at the time succeeded in keeping power in its hands.
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