How do logical fallacies totalitarian governments and leaders take power from the people ?

The totalitarian governments usually manage to get to power when the nation is in a bad situation, especially economically, as we can see in numerous examples throughout the history.

They promise the people that they will make the nation strong, that they will move aside all the ones that are doing damage to it, improve the economy, make all people be equal etc. All of those things seem logical and good in the eyes of the people that are desperate for a change and have been living in bad conditions, thus they would elect them. Once they get the power though, the totalitarian governments show their real face, they make a strong core around them, control the military and police forces and use them on daily basis for controlling things, use intimidation and violence, and the end result is that the people get stuck with similar or even worse leaders than previously.

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                the united states presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on tuesday, november 5, 1912. the election was a rare four-way contest.

                incumbent president william howard taft was renominated by the republican party with the support of its conservative wing. after former president theodore roosevelt failed to receive the republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the progressive party (nicknamed the "bull moose party"). it nominated roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. democrat woodrow wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, to the support of william jennings bryan, the three-time democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. eugene v. debs, running for a fourth time, was the nominee of the socialist party of america.

                wilson won the election, gaining a large majority in the electoral college and winning 42% of the popular vote, while roosevelt won 27%, taft 23% and debs 6%. wilson became the only elected president from the democratic party between 1892 and 1932, and the second of only two democrats to be elected president between 1860 and 1932. this was the last election in which a candidate who was not a republican or democrat came second in either the popular vote or the electoral college, and the first election in which all 48 states of the contiguous united states participated.

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