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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about what makes a government....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunch break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down

0:23.8

tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware dot org well howdy there internet people it's bow again

0:33.1

so tonight we're going to talk about what a government needs to exist.

0:39.7

I go ahead and tell you now, get ready to go down a rabbit hole.

0:45.7

In a recent video, I mentioned that government was a magic show.

0:52.7

It's all smoke and mirrors.

0:57.9

The government has authority because people believe that it has authority. I've got a lot of questions about that. And a whole bunch of

1:05.1

suggestions about things that a government must have in order to exist.

1:12.4

Things like the loyalty of the populace.

1:16.5

Patriotism.

1:18.2

The obligation to look out for its citizens.

1:24.0

I mean, those things might be nice if a government did that, but it's not required.

1:32.1

But at the same time, it's not really all smoke and mirrors.

1:35.4

There is one other thing that a government must have in order to exist.

1:40.8

Really two, but one is less important.

1:51.3

So, it has to have the perception that it has authority and then it has to have a monopoly on violence that's that's really it.

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