I have watched this movie many times because of one particular scene. I think the scene is one of the best examples of "Humor can be quite powerful". There is a satire on Democracy when the dictator travels to New York in order to address the United Nations Security Council. He refuses to make his country a democratic nation and the cue starts right here as he speaks,
"Why are you guys' so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1 percent of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests."
Damn, note the irony.
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