In Russia, they have only 1 party left, so the party clearly doesn’t matter. In Usa, it is not an official dictator yet. In other countries with a dictatorship, I don’t know about their parties. So do you know any examples where the parties still matter?
Yes. It is theoretically possible for a dictator to rule with the actual best interests of the people in mind, rather than a misguided belief about what those are, or else a complete lack of concern for anyone but themselves.
Since political beliefs tend to align along party lines, the party of such a dictator does matter somewhat, however little that might be.
Unfortunately, any benevolent dictatorship would be at constant risk of turning, and almost certainly be doomed to turn, into one of the other two options.
Even less fortunately, most dictatorships skip the benevolent step entirely.
Not exactly a dictatorship, but for example Thailand is a pretty successful and benevolent Monarchy where besides not being allowed to talk badly about the king, people are free.
That’s a constitutional monarchy, with added censorship. The UK was like that 100ish years ago. Now treasonous talk is tolerated
Since no country is perfect, what happen if a person critisize the king for a bad policy?
Thailand has some of the strictest laws of this kind.
Typically you’re looking at serious jail time if found guilty.
I haven’t looked into the details, but it’s more like you can’t criticise the Monarchy, but you can criticise the government, policies and laws. But you can’t incite violence or unrest even online, and cannot demafe government officials. From talking with Thais, this is ok, although they are obviously never too confrotavke speaking openly about it.