Sovereignty operates by designating quotidian acts as security matters.

Evidence

Saramago’s sequel imagines an election in which most voters cast blank ballots; the government interprets this as conspiracy and besieges the city. Newspapers, manifestos, surveillance, and rumor all figure. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

People generally choose safety. This is not a trait unique to members of any race or religion. People want safety and security for themselves, but also for their families. And giving people what they want is certainly a route to power. Nations like to have leaders who are strong protectors. And for all of recorded history, opportunists like Trump have understood that they can rise on promises to protect their people from imagined threats just as much as from real ones. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 329 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Order provides structure and security in society. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 198; Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies; Manufactured terrorist threats serve governance by keeping citizens fearful and quiescent (+5 more)

Related

• Politicians gain power by promising protection against imagined threats (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Manufactured terrorist threats serve governance by keeping citizens fearful and quiescent #exemplifies (0.80)
• A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy #exemplifies (0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies #expands (0.70)
• Politicians gain power by promising protection against imagined threats #exemplifies (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 329
• Private citizens’ discriminatory acts get reinforced by state security policies #expands (0.65)
• Order provides structure and security in society. #exemplifies (0.60) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 198