A Freedom Fighter's Manifesto [Part III]
01 May 2021Hvitserk Hong
From the personal writings of Hvitserk Hong...Dictatorships rise and fall. Here I write of military dictatorships, the rule of many by the armed few. While these oligarchies are often incompetent, any group with enough blood and ammo will achieve control over an unarmed populace. Sometimes a foothold is all they need to spread. Systems like Daibais and Lozin are ruled by such groups. But the weakness of their organization is plain to see. For example, the recently appointed leader of the secondary system is new to any sort of management. One can only hope he knows how to organize his underwear drawer, much less an administration. But I digress.
Military dictatorships attempt at too much while knowing too little in their haste to grab power. Perhaps at first they say they are servants of the people to gather further support. But it is a quick turn to engorging themselves, pilfering from the people they once swore responsibility to. All the while they embrace ideologies antithetical to the survival and welfare of the people. They seek wars regardless of cost and support the most contemptible of the galaxy ranging from royal upstarts to terrorists. They take to heart that what they do is right, as those who are in the possession of force often do, and project their expansionist desires as anything other than greed and exploitation.
Military dictatorships fall for a number of reasons. Their fighting force is mostly untrained and untried. Their leaders are more interested in joining polite society or pursuing other interests of the privileged, leaving their underlings to drift. Their alliances with rival governing bodies are paper-thin and untested for they have not developed strong relationships. Their goals, when presented to the public, are viewed as selfish, and rightfully so; the oligarchy will never understand what it means to be of the people. Perhaps the greatest of factors against them is their own arrogance, egos grown from stepping on the necks of the people--a blinding hubris.
One can observe the dissolution of the military dictatorship and their slipping influence in the aforementioned systems. The free people of the systems rise up against the imperialists. While the military attempts to hold onto their power, they remain ignorant of who had entrusted them with said power in the first place. An ascendant rise will always be matched by an equally dramatic fall.