Power of the people.

Yea, it's not technically Thursday anymore, you got a freebie yesterday, so piss off.

Everyone these days seems to be feeling helpless and unable to change the world as a whole.

Here is the truth.
You are only helpless because you allow yourself to be.

Change is risk. Risk on the part of those trying to cause the change. Everyone thinks of people like the president and think "Wow, well if I had his power I'd totally change everything."

Truth is, most of us wouldn't. Presidents have power in votes. Those are the number of people who by voting for them submit their will to the president.
The president has the support of these people, but also realizes that nothing he does will agree with everyone, any big changes he makes has to be approved of by the majority or his support will dry up.
Think about how much George W. Bush managed to pull off when his approval rating was high as opposed to when he was extremely unpopular.
He didn't really do anything new in the last couple years in office. He just coasted along on the things he did early in his presidency.

Now for the rest of us, the rules are different, We have no supporters to lose, all we have to risk is ourselves.

Think of the founding fathers, they all had supporters, they were elected colonial officials, they risked support.

Now think of people like MLKJ, the women's vote movement, the slaves who escaped captivity in the underground railroad.
Those were people who risked themselves.
Some paid for it with their lives, but the effects of people who stand up without supporters far outweighs those who stand up with supporters.

If you stand up by yourself, you are saying to the world "I disagree with this so much that I am willing to die for it."

Think of the man who stood up to the tank in China.
Think of Rosa Parks.
(granted, Rosa risked arrest, not death)

So you can't really complain too much about the world as a whole, since clearly none of us disprove anything enough stand up against it.

We all have our triggers, and the government as a whole knows where these triggers are.
They know that if the middle class starts feeling like slave labor, they will revolt.
They know that if the stop us from speaking out, we will do it anyways just to spite them.
They know that if enough of the population dips into the poverty level, we will revolt.

They know that if we revolt, it will cost them excessive amounts of money to stop us and to repair whatever damage we cause. And no matter what, they will still seem like the bad guys.

Think back to the Rodney King Riots. We all remember some shocking footage from those days, looters, rioters, destruction of property, assault on innocent bystanders.
But no-one will say that the rioters were not justified in their anger.

The powers that be watch us, and do their best to fuck us as hard as they can, but restrain themselves from fucking us so hard that we bite their dick off.