Whew - that was close... We escaped a potential disaster (Netflix show breaks down the Tyrant Handbook). Worth watching!

A new mini series dropped on Netflix a week or two ago, "How to become a tyrant." This is not your typical lite and fluffy summer fare. It's a 6 part series with 25-30 minute episodes covering your "Best Of" dictators from the 100 years:

• Hitler
• Saddam Hussein
• Idi Amin
• Stalin
• Gaddafi
• Kim dynasty in N. Korea

The episodes show how these 6 horrible figures rose to power and then abused that power, cleverly blending historical footage, interviews and incorporating rules from the following book:

At times, you will probably get goosebumps, chills, flashbacks from the past few years, and will inevitably end up shaking your head given the parallels to the 2015-2020 period here in the USofA. This series also reminded me of a bit that Bill Maher had on his weekly show, the Dictator Checklist and how many of the points Trump and his administration checked off. See it for yourself:

I would recommend to spend some of your downtime checking out this series, renewing your acquaintance with these horrible figures of the past century. (It's well worth watching with your children as well.) I guarantee that if you do end up sitting through a number of these you will be struck by how similar each of the stories are (with their own idiosyncrasies of course), yet how each country let their Tyrant rise to power and realize how close we were to a new version of this until January this year.

HAGS!