Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Only Government has power; not the economy, not the private sector, and not the Individual.

Only government can house power, because 'governing' is in the nature of Government. Obviously, the economy cannot govern, because its 'nature' is to make 'profits'. The economy knows how to make profits; it does 'not know how to govern'. Of course, that does not mean that a 'good' candidate from the economy, would not make a good political 'Office Holder'. Nevertheless, the goal of political office is to govern and that can only be accomplished by Government, regardless of the economic institutions that are beneficial to the People. Democratic Government governs with Freedom and Equality of the individual, or, its not 'governing', or its not Democratic. Freedom and Equality has absolutely no connection to making profits by means of the competitive spirit; its the reverse, the competitive spirit is only possible where there is 'governing' in 'Freedom and Equality' of the individual, which would include Freedom and Equality in the economy. Try 'economic aggressiveness', 'economic vision', 'economic competition', in an Autocracy or even a Plutocracy, and I assure you, that cannot be done. An Autocracy and a Plutocracy also have power. That's because they are forms of Government and its only Government that has power. The economy cannot have power, but the Plutocracy or Autocracy will protect its Governmental arrangement by eliminating the competition in the economy. Hence, the economy does not house power, neither does the individual, based on his/her economic accomplishments; the only source of Power is in a political arrangement; and in a Democratic arrangement, only the Democratic form of Government has Power. Plutocracy has two 'faces'; it will create 'more profits', than it already has, or, it will 'defend' the profits it already has. It does not care for Freedom and Equality of the individual, or, Freedom and Equality in the economy.

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