Evaluate the role played by Squealer in making Napoleon's totalitarian rule a success.

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Squealer was able to trick the uneducated masses to
believe that everything Napoleon said was in the best interest of the farm and animals. 
He changed and eliminated commandments in the fashion that gave Naopoleon more power. 
For example, one important commandment in Animalism was no "No animal shall hurt another
animal."  When animals disobeyed him, Napoleon knew he needed to punish them with brutal
force in order to gain total power.  He was able to get away with it because Squealer
conjured up  elaborate stories that made the animals who suffered at the hands of
Napoleon look like enemies and threats to the farm's safety and, therefore, justly
punished.  This exonerated Napoleon and made the need to ammend the commandment seem
necessary.

He also used scapegoating techniques (techniques
to put blame on innocent individuals) to take the animals' attention away from all of
Napoleon's evils and focus them on Snowball.  By eliminating all political competition,
Napoleon stood alone as the leader of Animal Farm.