Complete power can change a person virtually overnight. One of the biggest positions of power is the leader of a country, for example dictators. They are the prime examples of a psychopaths. Dictators have complete control over their country and make every little decision. Because of their job, dictators get very paranoid and almost lose control of their own mind. This should …show more content…
John Ashley Cloud, senior writer at Time Magazine and Harvard Grad, states that “dictators not only lie to others as a matter of course but also lie to themselves”. Cloud quotes Oxford historian, Robert Service, in saying “If ever [Stalin] called somebody a traitor, it was not only the minds of others he was manipulating”. For example, Muammar Gaddafi, Former Prime Minister or Dictator of Libya, believed that the existence of society revolved around him. Gaddafi is on record saying “All my people are with me. They will die to protect me.”
On top of being liars, dictators are unmerciful murders. They have the same mentality of a serial killer. Dictators seem to lack any feelings at all. If you commare a dictator to a murder, there is no difference; if anything, dictators are abundantly worst. John Wayne Gacy used a variety of tools to torture his victims over many hours, bring them back to consciousness after they pass out, then eventually showing mercy by killing them. While Joseph Stalin may not have physically done these things, he did call for the murder of anywhere for 3 million to 60 million of his own people with no