1. Executive Summary
By using various tactics in the political realm, a political party may gain privilege escalation up to fascism and thus tyranny level.
The only known mitigation strategy would include sortition.
It must be understood that currently, there are no real democracies worldwide (better worded: isonomies) as all political parties constitute aristocracies with their fighting groups (oligarchies, warlords or "Leistungsträger"). Ancient Greece called this situation "stasis".
As Solon, Aristoteles et al have shown already 574 BC, neither aristocracies nor tyrannies are stable or effective forms of governments, especially when survival is at stake.
Kleisthenes solved this by patching isonomy and sortition into the system in 507 BC.
2. Vulnerabilty details
Title: All current democracies are exploitable to install tyrannies
CVE: not assigned yet
Affected components: All parliaments and political or administrative institutions
Vendors: Various, undefined
Description:
By using adversary tactics in the political realm, it is always possible to gain momentum by escalating powers so that any confident, unscrupulous political party using this exploit can gain absolute power.
Proof of concept:
- Hitler 1933, - Putin 2007, - Erdogan 2013, - Trump 2016, - Netanyahu (gradual) - Poland (oscillating) - Orbán 2020 - Several other countries, often not starting from democracies - Trump 2025
(to be continued)
Conditions for exploit: Largely unconditional
Supporting structures: Widerspread ignorance, lack of constitution building skills, lack of testing
Explanation:
Human evolution has formed human consciousness as hunter-gatherers for over a million years: Evolution fosters cooperation but only in small groups that is able to handle direct and transparent responsabilities on a personal level.
If problems occur, hunter-gatherers either run to the next forest to exploit new resources or kill any competitors (human or animal), so their problem solving competence is only marginal.
This is an evolutionary result, not subject to change by will!
Confronted with only recent (10.000 years) sedentary life, the advent of farming in huge societies, homo "sapiens" performs badly:
The observed species is in a ever expanding way unable to solve problems by fleeing , freezing (current state of most) or fighting, fights are getting more and more severe (nuclear armament, political unrest).
At a time where homo sapiens was a negligeable part of the biological world, having only fear-driven, impulsive reactive pattern matching skills secured survival, when confronted by often unjust Nature and predatory animals.
The "default" mode of humanity is "bellum omnium contra omnes" (fight of everyone against all) - see "Leviathan", 1651 AD
3. Risk assessment
Severity level: Catastrophic
Exploitability: Rising
Potential Impact: Catastrophic
Reactive Demand: Immediate
Ignoring scientific facts as a consequence of tyrannic or aristocratic systems endangers living conditions for all species on this planet. Methods of leaving the planets are currently unavailable and will be for a very long time, possible forever as homo sapiens is only well adapted to this environment called "Nature" on planet Earth:
Only a fraction of the skills needed for man to "terraform Mars" would suffice to turn Earth itself into a sustainable living space.
4. Steps to reproduce
Privilege escalation is achieved by largely ignoring and undermining firstly the "softer", mostly uncoded und uncodeable rules, later even laws or juridical practice in societies, as there are
- Fairness - Truthfulness - Responsabilty - Trust - Peace - Mutual understanding - Personal relations - Reliability
Furthermore, the following tools are highly effective:
- Blatant or hidden Xenophobia - Blaming various groups (minorities preferred) for any shortcomings , "scapegoating" - Create shortcomings artificially to then act as aforementioned - Ignoring scientific evidence - Moving the overton window towards more aggressive speech - Opportunism - Moving goalposts in discussions - Presenting false alternatives - False balance "some say so, some so" - Pseudo experts - Logical fallacies - Nourishing unfulfillable expectations - Cherrypicking - Conspiracy meddling - Lying - Treason - Aggressive behaviour - Frustrate political opponents by endless repetition of false claims - Political propaganda - Funding - Corruption
In stark constrast, the follwing methods sadly are utmost uneffective, confronted with biologistic, fear-driven behaviour:
- Morals - Ethical behaviour - Religions
See: Roles of religions in all major conflicts.
- Separation of church and state - Checks and balances - Federalism - State of law - Enlightenment (as it can not be made mandatory) - Hope - "Positive thinking" - Personal effort - Personal example - Renunciation - Sacrifice - Reconciliation - Heroism - Revolutions
Revolutions only ever swap the governing aristocratic group, as can be studied in the French and Russian Revolution, among others..
5, Mitigation and Remedation
The only mitigation technology known to humanity is:
Firstly: to understand that while only true democracy could stop this exploit, no country is currently aware of sortition and its productive force for the good. Therefore it must be concluded that no country uses democracy. Effective and efficient problem resolving methods are unavailable (see Kleisthenes, 507 BC)
This conclusion is hard to make as it will be orthogonal to personal identification ("but we are already living in the best of all systems")
Secondly: By introduction of sortition in all political and administive domains of public societies, it can be practically demonstrated that conflicts of interest are being resolved in an intelligent and fair way. Personal communication is paramount to finding solutions, based in agreed upon facts and data.
Most importantly, all finger-pointing, blame-shifting and conspiracy-fearmongering can finally subsist.
Sortition means:
Citizens are RANDOMLY selected among ALL citizens, including the handicapped, mentally challenged, workers, single mothers even with three kids that generally can't afford any time nor money.
Participation in these allotted groups is MANDATORY (very few exceptions apply)
The selected citizens must be PAID so their jobs or given tasks may continue without them.
Those randomly selected groups are tasked with all rulemaking and administration. It is still necessary to have professional bureacracy but those forms of power must be controlled by allotted groups, too.
The duration might only be a weeks or very few months, just enough to
- Define the quesation(s) to be solved - Invite specialists or other desirable information - Discuss, exchange arguments - Everyone can talk to the end, no one must be interrupted. - Checking and discussion of possible outcomes - Decision - Dissolution of the citizen group
In order to make everyone be heard, groups must be small of size, say 10 or 20 participients each.
See: David van Reybrouck "Against Elections" and "G1000 in Belgium".
Se also: Ardalan Ibrahim, Youtube-Channel "Nutt Los".
6. Remark
This is not a dream. This is not a test. This CVE has been provided without any AI contributions.