Do people really have Power?

"people protesting"
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What is this people's power? Do people really have power? For the past few years I have been asking myself this questions and still have no idea what is this ghost called 'people's power'.

According to my own definition people's power is a phase used by politicians to manipulate people into believing that they posses power. In reality there is nothing like people's power. People posees no power at all thus only a minority few individuals in high positions have possetion of power. They are the ones with power to control things. The fact that every now and then people strikes, boycott is a sign that they don't have power.

Concurrently, people are made to believe that multi-party democracy is legitimately a democratic system. I don't want to agree or disagree with this statement but will ask a question " did people come out with the system or it was an idea of an individual?, how did it reach the people? was it imposed on to them by force or they themselves choose it?" The answers to this questions are obvious. Multi-party democracy began as an idea from an individual and was imposed to the people as a legitimate system to represent the voice of the voiceless. wow!!! What a lie. However people can have power only when they buy an idea of an individual thus unite upone that idea.

I conclude by emphasising that there is nothing like people's power. Democracy is a smart way to manipulate people.