the actual political spectrum.
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There's no one in charge. Neither of us have authority over this conversation nor does anyone else in the world. Do you understand what I mean when I say "the nature of"?
That's where you're wrong, and I mean really, really, wrong. Painfully wrong.
There's always someone in charge. If for some reason there is breakdown of the established order, a new one supplants it in short order. Man is a political animal, it's in our nature to organize. If you had no society, in about 10 minutes 6 people will organize to be the strong to take from the weak, who didn't organize with anybody else.
And not just human nature, by that I mean not just animals, but "nature" or reality itself is hierarchical. Planets orbiting the sun and electrons orbiting the nucleus.
There's no one legitimately in charge. Just look at your daily life whose holding a gun to your head making sure you don't kill yourself? No one. Who's keeping you from taking a shit on your neighbors lawn during a family BBQ? NO ONE. People feel the need to believe there's someone keeping them in line but it's completely your choice.
Now you're moving the goalposts. You're saying "legitimately" in charge.
Unfortunately for you, don't have the authority to decide that, and they are still in charge.
I understand the delusion, because frankly, I don't like many of them myself and they are quite horrible leaders on the whole.
FOR EXAMPLE If you by yourself chose to listen to say Joe Rogan as an authority in your life that's a legitimate authority because you individually chose it. Illegitimate authority is authority you did not chose. We were born into a system where we have no control over who makes decisions for us that makes the authority of the government illegitimate because all governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed. Without the consent of the governed the governments themselves cease to be legitimate.