Could The US Midterms Really Be Rigged?
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Can a Scene From Transformers Comics Gives Us a Guideline For Dealing With Those In Power?
" In whose interests do you exercise power ?" " To whom are you accountable ?" " How can we get rid of you ?" Three powerful questions, previously posed in a comic about some of my personally favorite characters. Derived from five questions that a noted British politician believed needed to be answered if a nation-state were to have true democracy. Questions that can help people in real life address the problems of powerful people and institutions. In Whose Interests Do You Exercise Power ? For elected officials, power should be exercised on behalf of the voters they represent. For CEOs and owners, they have many stakeholders. Usually there's a board of directors, but there's also the employees and customers, which keep the company alive by various, similar and different means. Generally-speaking, human beings are in power because they've been empowered by the masses, and it's expected that those in power use it to aid, protect and imp...