Unlocking Citizen Power: Navigating Government Realities and Championing Individual Empowerment

A fairly reliable test for whether or not government should have a particular power or authority is whether or not you would want your worst enemy to have that power or authority over you.  This illustrates the idea that we often conflate the government with some wiser, more benevolent entity kindly watching out for us all with equanimity and love. In reality government is nothing more than other people - flawed, fallible, sometimes mature, often petty and rarely wise people.