System of Dictatorship|Defeating Dictator
A successful revolution becomes indelibly etched in memory. The dictator is on the run amid public jubilation. Passions are running high and expectations that the revolution will produce immediate benefits, results, or change in people’s lives are at stratospheric levels. Such expectations are impossible to satisfy.
Quite often, the country is broke because the dictator and his henchmen looted the treasury. In addition, the country is saddled with a mountain of foreign debt. Resources must be found, but the public is in no mood for tax increases or belt tightening. It wants improved social services—long denied them by the ousted dictator—and it wants them now! If the people’s demands and expectations are not met—and quickly—they will resort to the same tactics (street protests) used to oust the dictator. Witness Egypt and Tunisia.