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Everything is a gang. This means all leadership. In any scenario. Government, corporate, NGO, charity.
There are no exceptions to this rule.
Even the state, democracy or tyranny matters little, is simply the biggest and most powerful gang, in that time and place.
We've simply become used to it - it is normalised. And we've entrapped ourselves through a hierarchy of obedience. We obey so well because the rewards are social acceptance and a higher seat in the tribe.
Again, there are no exceptions among all people here either - everyone obeys, no matter what their principles are. Principles are a phoney smoke screen we all use. So its mental health to wave hands around calling out hypocrisy.
Any one of the hierarchies could be overthrown overnight if the insurrectionists had a bigger 'army of support'. Theres no need to await the end of an election cycle or weakness in the tyrant.
It does not not have to be a violent handover of POWER - e.g. a large enough group of people resisting by legally avoiding as much tax as possible would bring any government down quickly.
Among many other forms of uncivil obedience, follow the rules exactly- do not exceed your remit, to place that gang and its leadership in a no win scenario. Whatever can be used legally to cause the tax base to fall precipitously and clog the courts.
Beware: remember The Red Terror in proto Soviet Union - to quash the insurrection, the new tyranny deliberately killed 50 million of its own people, mostly innocents. Talk about genocide. Curiously a lot of voters are calling for another one today, for identical reasons using the same excuses - mental health, at scale.
Guess what? All that would deliver is a new gang.
There is a remedy though. Everyone knows by intuition what that is.
