IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER

It’s All About Power

Strip away the noise of American politics today, the endless punditry, the party spin, the daily distractions, and one truth remains: it’s all about power.

Not rhetoric. Not platforms. Not even the Constitution, though its words still matter. The decisive question in our national crisis is simple: who holds the power to maintain the American experiment of democracy?

The Illusion of Power on the Radical Right

The Heritage Foundation and its stable of pseudo-intellectuals claim to hold the keys to America’s future. They have designed their “Project 2025” as a blueprint for dismantling democratic guardrails. And they have their willing puppet: Donald Trump, a man whose vulgar instincts and intellectual bankruptcy (IQ under 100, by any reasonable measure) make him the perfect vessel for authoritarian ambition.

But this is not America. It is not the kind of power that can sustain a republic. It is the power of a minority, propped up by wealth, manipulation, and brute shamelessness.

The Real Power

The real power, the only power that matters in a democracy, is the power of the people. For nearly 250 years, the people made the experiment work imperfectly, unevenly, with tragic exclusions, but always under the assumption that consent of the governed mattered more than the dominance of the few.

That power has been eroded, siphoned away by moneyed elites who mistake their wealth for wisdom. Yet the arithmetic is still simple: a small clique of billionaires and their political stooges cannot match the force of tens of millions of citizens acting in common purpose.

Forget the Distractions

Forget the daily churn of political gossip. Forget the obsession with polls, ratings, and talking heads. None of it changes the equation. The question is, and always will be, power: who has it, who uses it, and whether the people will reclaim it.

Taking Back the Country

The answer lies not in waiting for institutions to save us; they have already been compromised, but in citizens' determination to take back their own country. That means organizing, voting, resisting, and refusing to be lulled into the lie that a minority elite speaks for the majority.

The radical right has money, yes. They have think tanks, yes. But they do not have legitimacy, and they do not have numbers. Democracy endures when the people understand that they are the true power, and when they act on that truth.

Conclusion

At its heart, America’s crisis today is not about ideology or party labels. It is about whether democracy will be preserved or surrendered to oligarchy. Power is the equation, and the people are the answer. Everything else is a distraction.

William James Spriggs