Slight correction: the power others gave them a long time ago, and now nothing can help those others take it back without uprooting the whole civilization in the process. Current power is a malignant formation too advanced to heal without destroying the whole organism.
It's not a slight correction, those claims are the exact problem - the propaganda of the powerful: Give up, there is nothing you can do.
People in democracies can easily vote to change where power lies (that is, power lies ultimately with the citizens), if that's what they want, and it's not hard to see how: The current situation is highly unusual for democracies; there is a long history of what to do and how to do it.
A major reason they don't do it is that they keep reading and believing they are powerless.
For the most part, they only have the power others give them.
Slight correction: the power others gave them a long time ago, and now nothing can help those others take it back without uprooting the whole civilization in the process. Current power is a malignant formation too advanced to heal without destroying the whole organism.
Or so it seems, I'd really like to be wrong here.
It's not a slight correction, those claims are the exact problem - the propaganda of the powerful: Give up, there is nothing you can do.
People in democracies can easily vote to change where power lies (that is, power lies ultimately with the citizens), if that's what they want, and it's not hard to see how: The current situation is highly unusual for democracies; there is a long history of what to do and how to do it.
A major reason they don't do it is that they keep reading and believing they are powerless.
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