dictator has a lot of negative connotations because it's used to refer to a system where the hierarchy embodied in the state represents the actual sovereign hierarchy that calls the shots as opposed to a liberal system where the state is weak and exists to provide a regulatory framework that works in the favor of the capitalist class
While there are DEFINATELY some in the MSM who are well aware of how disingenous they are being, the vast majority are just useful idiots whose ego demands they swallow what they are given, thus be replaced
