I do enjoy your quip, but I can't interpret your second paragraph as anything but nonsense ramblings. The first sentence is held very dearly in American politic

I do enjoy your quip, but I can't interpret your second paragraph as anything but nonsense ramblings. The first sentence is held very dearly in American political thought, but that is unrelated to the second sentence second. I mean I think I can guess what you might be getting at but you're assigning blame to the wrong things. Both of your examples are GREAT things that are not really examples of "power" in that they are not unilateral.