Where Will It All End?

To me insisting on my own way is really the highest form of arrogance.  I base who I vote for on the basis of them being closest aligned to my point of view.  Never have I endorsed someone as representing all I represent.  I understand that seeing them in power comes with enacting what I adhere to, and enacting what I do not adhere to but  was a part of the policy platform.
I am thankful that democracy affords me a choice.  I find it interesting that it is the most liberating form of government, but it is the one most under attack today.
All around the world and in a multitude of different scenarios leadership and parties are emerging where it is insisted it is my way or the highway and only thinking like those in power is acceptable.  Governments are emerging that insist on their way as being the only way, and opposition is crushed and made to disappear.
Benign dictatorship can be beneficial when  the lives of everyday people are made better.  To me big problems arise when a dictorship exists only to feather its own nest and deals with opposition based not on what is best for the people, but what is best for the dictarship.
To me it is a situation fraught with danger.  Beliefs trump facts.  Rather than where an idea ends being considered, the idea itself (which may or may not be good) is espoused.  Only one way of solving problems is considered without considering how the idea really ends.
It seems the solution to difficulties emerging is seen as annihilating the opposition not based on proven facts, but on untested beliefs.  Where this takes a turn for the worst is that someone with a grip on power does what they want despite the obvious un-necessary hurt to others being caused - social experiments gone wrong and up till now corrected after a huge human cost.
I will not hold up one party as being THE solution.  Human history is filled with that sort of thing and still problems exist.  Steps forward and back happen (now it seems many steps back are being taken) yet for me unless the human heart is changed the problem will always exist despite good or bad leadership and policies.