[383toast]

Do people really get to choose who they're governed by, or do they get shown a few choices that are really false choices

[satisfice]

Power is real. Powerful people get to do what they want to do. We can only hope that they have a conscience (otherwise known as the Alignment Problem).

[nh23423fefe]

Isn't this backwards. Lots of people try to do what they want. Some succeed. Retroactively we call them powerful.