Step 10: End Democracy Itself
Rig the rules so the people can never truly choose again.
Democracy rarely dies with a single blow. It ekes out — vote by vote, law by law, restriction by restriction — until the people still cast ballots, but the outcome is already written. Step 10 in the 10 Steps to Autocracy and Authoritarianism is the endgame: dismantling the machinery of free elections and replacing it with a system where power never trul…
