What's the difference between a totalitarian government and a Democratic government?

Question

How would the lives of average citizens be affected under these two types of governments?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In a democratic government, citizens have a say when it comes to how the country is run.  In a totalitarian regime, the country is ruled by a very tiny group of elite citizens (usually military generals and industrialists).  In a democratic regime, people have more control over their lives.  However, in a totalitarian regime, the government will try to control the lives of its citizens as much as possible.

Answer 3

Totalitarian

1 a: of or relating to centralized control by an autocratic leader or hierarchy : authoritarian, dictatorial; especially ..

..the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority

Democracy:

1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

Answer 4

If you have money in  democratic gov't you can enjoy freedom. In a totaltarian the gov't will kill you and steal your money.