From My Political Page on Facebook...

How to change a democracy into a dictatorship in eight easy steps:

1: Debase the value of a human life. Start with just one. Teach your populace that they are not divine or divinely loved, but lonely and worthless. Slaughter innocents. Gloss it over by saying that those lives were not important. Repetition is vital; if you say anything enough times, it becomes truth.

2: Lower the educational standards for the general public. Teach children not to think for themselves, but to believe what they are told, unconditionally. Do not teach logic, or philosophy, or history. Teach them that learning is laborious. Make them hate school, and they become sheep. Vilify anyone who applies reason and justice to their world view.

3: Incite divisiveness. Infighting is the perfect tool for population control. If your people hate each other, they will be too busy trying to "win" to pay attention to what is going on outside their doors. The more they fight, the less you have to worry about a unified, logical stand against your oppression. Keep them distracted with contention, the media will soon follow. This is key. If you properly implement enough diversion, you can get away with anything. Anger is the enemy of clarity.

4: When changing the laws, or stripping away rights and freedoms, do it subtly and behind closed doors. Change policies one at a time, adjust the wording ever so slightly, so as not to draw attention to the systematic destruction of their civil liberties. Use lots of big words and double speak. If you have properly implemented steps two and three, your sheep will not be knowledgeable, educated, or focused enough to put the pieces together and see past your ruse.

5: Make them depend on your government for everything. Use enormous monopolies and massive, faceless conglomerates (which you control), to decimate small businesses and family owned resources. Not only will you profit greatly from this takeover, they will depend on you for everything from food and housing, to clothing and healthcare. Also, because they will be mostly unfamiliar with how to survive without TV's and prepackaged food stuffs, they cannot leave your system.

6: Widen the gap between the wealthy and the poverty stricken. You will control the rich through their fear of losing everything, and the poor through fear of disease and violent crimes.

7: Take away their arms. Leave them only with sticks and stones to defend themselves. This will be incredibly important when they finally look up from their infighting and poverty and realize what has happened.

8: Outlaw religion, censor art; create repetitive and generic music. Make sex, love, and nudity awkward, filthy taboos. Turn wife against husband; and foster apathy and spite in parents. This is the final step. Without these final beautiful things, there is no way for your population to learn from each other, for knowledge or wisdom to cross generational gaps. You will have actually made step one their reality. They will have no passion, no drive, and no memory of a better life. Instead, they will suckle at the tits of your dictatorship, sleeping and waking to the beat of your drum.

Good Luck! And remember to have fun with it.
Don’t forget: "A government should not be afraid of its people, people should be afraid of their government."