In a genuine democracy (a country ruled by its people), if there ever really was such a thing, all government power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from the People.
Since you cannot delegate or transfer any power to a government which you do not first possess yourself, then as a matter of simple logic, your government cannot exercise any power that you do not also have.
So, if government does something which you as an individual are prohibited from doing, then your government has become, or always was, a power unto itself, which is to say it is fundamentally undemocratic in nature, and therefore completely illegitimate.
Here's what the American Political Science Association said after they completed an analysis of our political system in 2014...
"In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule--at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcome. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it. Our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. However, the preferences of rich people had a much bigger impact on subsequent policy decisions (40% of preferences enacted) than the views of middle-income and poor Americans (18% of preferences enacted). When policy making is dominated by powerful organizations and a small number of elite, then America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened." [1]
References
1. https://tinyurl.com/nwvq7yh
#PoliticalSystems #Democracy #Truth #Logic #Oligarchy #Autocracy #Plutocracy #Elite #Cabal #SocialControl #Study #Princeton
Since you cannot delegate or transfer any power to a government which you do not first possess yourself, then as a matter of simple logic, your government cannot exercise any power that you do not also have.
So, if government does something which you as an individual are prohibited from doing, then your government has become, or always was, a power unto itself, which is to say it is fundamentally undemocratic in nature, and therefore completely illegitimate.
Here's what the American Political Science Association said after they completed an analysis of our political system in 2014...
"In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule--at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcome. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it. Our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. However, the preferences of rich people had a much bigger impact on subsequent policy decisions (40% of preferences enacted) than the views of middle-income and poor Americans (18% of preferences enacted). When policy making is dominated by powerful organizations and a small number of elite, then America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened." [1]
References
1. https://tinyurl.com/nwvq7yh
#PoliticalSystems #Democracy #Truth #Logic #Oligarchy #Autocracy #Plutocracy #Elite #Cabal #SocialControl #Study #Princeton
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