“Yiddishkeit isn’t run like a Dictatorship”
Yiddishkeit IS absolutely run like a dictatorship (actually a Monarchy)
this is the rock bottom absolute Fundamental of being a Jew!!!
Hashem is King. on Rosh Hashanah we proclaim this. the Shofar is the heralding of the coming of the King.
the King has given us his beloved Officers to represent Him and inform us of His Will, their authority extending back in an unbroken pipeline from Har Sinai.
you must find a Rabbi who is true to the Mesorah, and fulfill what he tells you. if you dont, then you are choosing evil and not Good. you are proclaiming yourself king in the face of the One who truly is King.