The most common way people give up their power

[Fire Walk With Me]

[Zorra]

1. knr

[Brother Buzz]

2. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

[uponit7771]

3. +1

[bigmonkey]

4. This is why I get so impatient with the local "announcements" that we're all powerless.

The powerful always win, the current system is an expression of common human nature, the quotations and videos that show how corrupt the system is and imply it's incorrigible. I suppose folks think they're trying to wake the sleepers, but I see it mostly in the framework of the OP.

[MedleyMisty]

5. It's an external locus of control

I think that's where conspiracy theories come from. Came up with that idea during the Libyan revolution, when I figured that people must be assuming that it was all propaganda because they projected their feeling of helplessness on to the Libyans and could not believe that the Libyans would actually rise against Gaddafi.

I noticed that the same people who said it was all propaganda and that Libya was really like Iraq were the same people who said in other threads that the 1% is too powerful, that there's nothing we can do, that there's no hope.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Look at the amount of change and conversation about change #Occupy has created.

Now imagine double the numbers, ten times the number...

[PETRUS]

7. Way more people are feelin' it than I expected. nt

[Laluchacontinua]

11. I think it's more about people who don't believe in hollywood movies.

The rebels would have been *nowhere* except for NATO. Helps to have powerful friends. With bombs.

[woo me with science]

8. And that also explains many of the most common ways of attempting to take power.

"Most people under 50 do not expect Social Security to be there for them anyway."

"You need protection from terrorists, so we need to grope you now and also monitor your web activity."

"You can't expect him to fight for that liberal policy. We don't have a filibuster-proof majority."

"He had to appoint a Republican to that post. They never would have approved a Democrat."

"Eighty-three percent of liberal Democrats are perfectly happy with Obama."

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. "You can't grow your own food."

"You can't barter."
"You can't build your own home."
"Money is the basis of all trade."

YOU NEED =US=.

:thumbsup:

[woo me with science]

10. +10000 nt

[woo me with science]

14. "A primary would be futile."

"Obama is the only real candidate we have."

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[Downwinder]

12. Any right you give up, you give up for all.

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Kick.