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Don't hand over power to politicians, bureaucrats and NGOs. It's not rocket science to need further explanation.
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Politicians, by definition, have power. How do you easily remove or withhold it?
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It's the degree of power they hold, not a binary. A politican in Switzerland has much less power than a politician in China.

When your power is to determine which day the recycling truck is dropping-by, hardly anyone wants to coerce that power. But when it is e.g printing money the calculus is massively different.

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> When your power is to determine which day the recycling truck is dropping-by, hardly anyone wants to coerce that power.

I take it you've never encountered a homeowner's association.

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I thought you said it was easy?
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