We Are Being Required To Fight Authoritarianism On The Ground
And we’ve got a secret weapon to help us win the battle, as South Koreans have so beautifully demonstrated.
The South Korean people, everyday citizens, rose up to take back their country from a dictator. It’s an instructive example that we Americans need to learn from of how “people power,” our secret weapon, can overcome the most dire circumstances.
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I’ve been saying, mostly to myself, I’ll admit, for so long that the American people, everyday folk like you and me, are so much more powerful than we realize.
But in order to exercise that power, we need to let go of petty differences and unite. Our power is in our numbers. After all, there are WAY more of us than there are of them.
We are so used to taking direction from those we put into power — essentially giving our power away and then expecting those in power to address our needs as citizens of this country.
We forget that those in apparent power are our representatives. We put them in power to represent us. In other words, we are the boss of them, not the other way around.
