This power is the ability to control and live your own life and nothing more, which is a freedom that is being whittled away daily.
On a national scale it would be termed "self determination". If we truly had self determination the openspigot of illegals would cease immediately because Americans overwhelmingly oppose a porous, uncontrolled border.
However, the elites DO want a porous, uncontrolled border.
That is the "power" I reference, and you ought to have an interest in it, if only for future generations of Americans. Apathy kills.
My mistake in shortage of precision. Sorry for creating confusion. The power the elites have, that I am not interesting in "taking," (more precisely, I'm interesting in having it removed from them, but not in using it) is the power to regulate otherwise responsible people's activities.
By their words and deeds, the political class has demonstrated its intention to fundamentally transform the country. Forty or so years ago, when this became pretty clear to me, I asked my good friend who has studied political science if what I had read (generally about US buy-in to one-world government) was true, or just a ginned-up story/scam. He said it was in line with what was taught in poli-sci as the inevitable track of modern political/power systems.
As for future generations of "Americans," I'm sure people will be living this land for as long as it is habitable. But the political ideals embodied in the US Constitution, THAT has been effectively dead for most of my lifetime. Fedzilla is probably a hundred-fold its constitutional size and effect, its institutions are dishonest and corrupt, and it has every intention of becoming even larger. Not to say that state and local governments are upstanding either.
I am not indifferent or apathetic about this. Just tired. My kids have a pretty good handle on my point of view, and while they don't trust "the man," they, being adults, are free to go their own ways. Meanwhile, until or unless there is massive disobedience of the law (think Gandhi), the powers that be will always, always, always prevail.