“So it's not that we are better because our ruling class is kinder, gentler and more respectful than the oligarchs, military brass and politicians in autocratic countries. Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney are not nicer people than Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin -- the former just have less power to harm you than the latter their citizens, due to our axioms.”
https://chrisliss.substack.com/p/power?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fpwoer&utm_medium=reader2