that's just my best guess.... i need to stop smoking weed and put down Tom Clancy books
(j/k)
Heh.
How do you take over the world?
Here is how I would do it.
First, look at the old dictators who failed. Learn from their mistakes.
Take control of industry and people, via capitalism.
Keep people smart enough to be unknowing slaves, yet limit their critical thinking. We want to limit what people are capable of, but book burning is a big no-no... people tend to catch on to that.
Keep people so busy that they are wholly dependent on infrastructure, internet, television, making enough money to eat... make it so where in their spare time, they are more worried about golf than dealing with anything stressful.
Pretend to fight racism, greed, immorality, while secretly harboring it just enough, because it gives you leverage.
Let the rich stay rich, and make the poor stay poor. That way you always have at least two demographics to appeal to... you can throw them a bone once in a while to keep their interest.
Allow election of really bad officials once in a while, to make the ones you really want look good.
Pick on other countries to help develop your force, start a war here and there to perfect your war machine, in the guise of some mission. Also helps to keep people dependent in times of crisis, and shows the tactics and abilities of other countries, even so called 'allies'. This also helps indoctrinate the military and the people to war, making them more susceptible to your propaganda machine.
Try to disarm other countries nukes, while keeping a few of your own hidden. At the right time, get someone else to start World War III. Make sure that this war totally wrecks the majority of other countries who will be contenders to your takeover. Make it a bloody and mostly conventional war that you can use to smash other opponents, with your perfected war machine. Use the few nukes you kept hidden, wisely.
Ensure that the population falls into chaos during WW III. Use this as a reason to enact Martial Law. Find a way to make it permanent, pull out the infrastructure for a bit to make sure people panic, then 'rescue' them. Make them worship the government like God.
Assassinate those who oppose you, while working on ensuring other countries stay weak and chaotic. Indoctrinate the people that other countries are evil, your country is the best and most righteous in the world.
Start taking over everyone else, one by one, expand, and conquer.