When Leaders Turn Guns on Their Own People
Democracies don’t collapse only when institutions fail — they collapse when leaders turn their weapons on the people they are sworn to serve.
History teaches us a hard truth: Democracies don’t collapse only when institutions fail — they collapse when leaders turn their weapons on the very people they are sworn to serve.
Tanks in the streets, tear gas in the squares, troops facing down their own citizens, may restore order in the short term, but they do something far more corrosive in the long run: they strip a nation of its moral authority.
Once that authority is gone, no election, no speech, no military victory can restore it. A democracy that silences dissent with force may still call itself free, but to the world — and to its own people — it looks no different from the dictatorships it claims to oppose.
That is the fragile currency of democracy — not just ballots and laws, but trust.
Author’s summary: Leaders undermine democracy when they use force against their own people.
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