Have you ever had power? Have you ever tried to keep that power?
Yeah, there’s a grasp mechanism there. Guns aren’t the only thing that people will give up from their Cold Dead Hands.
True power is the power to retire.
The problem politicians have is that they are property of others—and cannot retire until their owners give them permission.
I agree with this.
The human brain is a complex set of functions. Everything from language recognition to motor control to sensory processing to executive deliberation to impulse control and ‘conscious’ awarenes ... but most of the things we think of as human, and there is also the older part or lizard brain. I think the lizard brain is last to go. It doesn’t break down. So even though we think of the concepts of ‘power and control’ as having social aspects (IE, not reptilian but mammalian), I think that no how much someone suffers cognitive deficits, they are always going to cling to power... perhaps even more desperately than ever.
I believe were he to vacate his office, his replacement would be appointed by the dem governor who has publicly stated he will not follow state law and instead appoint any dem he wants.
We need him to stay in office.