Imagine, for a moment, a nation.
Let's give it everything a nation might have: land, infrastructure (roads, power plants). Maybe it has access to the ocean.
But suppose, for a moment, that that nation is missing one critical ingredient: the PEOPLE. Would you even call it a nation?
Of course not. It would be empty space on a map. Population: 0.
A nation without its people is NOTHING. It is a fiction. There are plenty of nations you can imagine, but none of them have any people, and so they are entirely imaginary.
The people who would be our masters and rule over us, to exert their will upon us against our wishes and desires, know this. Sometimes we, the PEOPLE, forget this fact!
Government which does not govern by consent of the governed cannot exist. It is an oxymoron. It is like an ocean without water; a forest with no trees; a cattle ranch with no cows. CONSENT of the governed is a critical element, not because it is nice to have, but because if it doesn't exist, government doesn't exist.
The point of the Great Awakening is to awake the PEOPLE to the facts of what those who suppose themselves our government has done to us. It is to awaken us to a sense of our moral imperative to hold our governments accountable. And most especially, to call as a question whether we consent to this.
As for me, I do not consent, I do not consent, I do not consent.
"Government which does not govern by consent of the governed cannot exist." Tell this to the people of Chyna, N. Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran.
I've read a book by a woman that escaped from NK. She was captured after making it to China, and was thrown in prison in NK and raped.
It is hard to understand, but both women thought that Kim Jong-un was awesome and was doing a great job. But they were starving and had to escape the country to survive, while still loving the glorious leader.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23014730-a-thousand-miles-to-freedom
They have the consent of the governed.
I think it is mostly true in China also. Although, it might not stay true in China.
Now there are demonstrations in Cuba, which I would have never expected.
In China only about 10% of the people actually belong to the Communist Party. These are the elites that control everything including the military. They have the guns. The fact that the men or women on the street aren't protesting isn't because they consent to be governed by the CCP, it's because they realize that in it's current status, to resist is futile and a certain death sentence for them and their family. If they had a true option of being governed by the CCP or by the Democratic government of Taiwan, they'd pick Taiwan in a heartbeat.
This I knew.
But I don't know how the Chinese people feel about their government. They obviously can't exactly say how they feel.
I will say I don't think that the people love communism. I think they love capitalism.
There are plenty of people in those countries who are profiting off the corruption.