Title: Power, America, and The Hunger Games
Original CoS Document (slug): power
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Created: 2021-03-12 19:42:49
Updated: 2021-03-22 03:00:00
Published: 2021-03-15 00:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T21:10:13.581222181
Let’s start with some undeniable principles:
- Nature abhors a vacuum. Although space does come close, it is not a complete vacuum.
- Human beings are subject to greed and other nasty emotions.
There was a vacuum created, as We the People abdicated our civic duty and withdrew from politics. The federal government filled that void and stole some of our power.
Another undeniable law of nature came into play. It always was a factor but become more of one after we gave them that inch.
Greed of power jumped right on the government’s shoulders.
They began to acquire (steal, is more like it) power from anywhere they could get it: the states, local governments, and the people.
Now the federal government has a great deal of power and are threatening more of our remaining rights. The Equality Act is one example, as well as the newest common sense gun regulations.
The Founding Fathers had a plethora of quotes on power and human nature, but I want to give you excerpts from an email that Donald Sutherland (President Snow) wrote to Hunger Games director Gary Ross.
“Power perpetrates war and oppression to maintain itself until it finally topples over from the bureaucratic weight of itself and sinks into the pages of history.
“Power corrupts, and, in many cases, absolute power makes you really horny. Clinton, Chirac, Mao, Mitterrand.
“…she knows that he will go to any necessary end to maintain his power because she knows that he believes that she’s a real threat to his fragile hold on his control of that power. She’s more dangerous than Joan of Arc.”
Now replace “he” with “the establishment,” “she” with “Convention of States,” and read that passage again.
I think Donald Sutherland sums up our current situation quite well. Watch The Hunger Games to get an idea of what life would be like without a Convention of States.
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