It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.
If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.