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 " 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...

 It's the policies and the system, not just the person in charge:

 

 

 Much like AOC and Kyrsten Sinema, the closer Gabbard got to power the more she was willing to compromise:

 The version reported by Kit from Hard Lens Media:

 

  Good question !

“White Christian nationalism has cut out of their Bibles all of the Scriptures that lead faith to justice,” Wallis writes in a passage that recounts his youthful episode with the scissors. “When is the last time you heard a white Christian nationalist MAGA pastor talk about justice from the pulpit — justice for the poor, for the immigrants, for those being discriminated against? The only words that relate to ‘justice’ are predictions of punishment for all those who oppose their political agenda.” -- Jim Wallis, describing how White supremacy has infected Christianity throughout American history , creating a group who follow a " Bible that's full of holes ." 

 Chris Hedges and Vincent Bevins discuss:

 

Sigh : A handful of Democratic governors made their way through a gaggle of their colleagues last month to tell President Joe Biden directly what they’ve been stressing behind the scenes: He needs to be fighting harder. The Democrats told Biden that he needed to show more of the fire that was on display in a closed-door meeting with governors when Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte handed him a letter demanding more action on the southern border. Biden flashed a smile, according to two of the governors standing there. “State of the Union,” Biden said, teasingly. That fighting attitude is anticipated to be on display during Thursday’s primetime speech, in which the president is expected to go much further than he is used to in bashing corporations for gouging consumers and racking up profits. But with anger about rising prices driving so much of the bad vibes surrounding the economy — even the Cookie Monster X account posted about shrinkflation on Monday, prompting a response from the White Ho...

 "Read the Room" indeed:

 But not for any moral reasons: