A lot of talk these`days about political power, so I wondered exactly what power do the politicos, all the way up to the President, actually have. And the answer was clear: None, they have no power.
Power is the ability to force you to do something. A`250 pond muscleman has power. Obama doesn't. All of the Demos and the Repubs combined do not. They can pass all the laws they want, mandate whatever they want, but we don't have to comply, do we? They personally cannot FORCE us, the people, to do it. If 10 million or 20 million or 50 million of us choose not to do something, what can they do about it? Nothing. They can say they will seize our property if we don't do as they wish, but who exactly will show up at my home to seize it. Not the President, not the Senate majority, not the Supreme Court justices. They ain't coming.
Oh, right. The police or the military will show up and physically throw me off my property. They are the only two "political" groups that have the semblance of power...physical power...to accomplish anything. And that is my point entirely...if the police and the military choose not to take action, the politicos are helpless. Totally. And even if the few million members of those two arms of the government do want to enforce government edicts, can they in fact be successful in doing so if tens of millions of us resist?
Point: politicos have power only because we the public sanction that power, we go along with it. It is we, not they, who have the ultimate power...and that is something we ought start thinking about pretty damn soon.
PS: Isn't that the real reason so many politicos want to curtail our right to own guns? And isn't that the real reason why the Founders of this country specifically enumerated that right in the Constitution?
We don't have to retake our country, as I so often hear these days. We have to stop giving it away.
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