@jalcine No, it's not controlling the relationships between everything, and it's vital to realize that not everything is about governance.

I don't have to ask permission to hang out with a friend. I don't have to ask permission to make a bit of art. And we should celebrate that politics does not enter into our personal lives like that.

To accept that politics controls the relationships between everything is to promote that very dangerous granting of power, that we don't have to grant, and that we should absolutely refuse to grant.

No, politicians don't have that power, and we should absolutely refuse to give them that power.