Instead, American political leaders and their industrial clients have turned to a war against the people. This new public policy is designed to insure economic supremacy, while disregarding the essential interdependence between the economic, social, and ecological components of reality. The legal and economic consequences of human transactions cannot be disconnect from the larger, spiritual or natural sources from which they spring. Instead, Keane observed, Rulers surrounded by spies, police, jurists, tax collectors, generals, and administrators cannot rule for very long. Power ultimately emanates from below.
Rulers can rule only insofar as they have the tacit or active support of the ruled.
Without it, they become impotent in the face of citizens acting together in solidarity for the achievement of their own common goals.