ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
What movie is this?
Both Barbie movies are way more based than they had any right to be.
No system can achieve consensus consent of the governed. All governments maintain authority through a monopoly on violence.
All of society runs on the underlying threat of violence/force... From staving off wars, to enforcing our laws. It all requires people to be cajoled into being good/better under the threat of punishment. Usually through isolation from the rest of society, or straight up violence.
That threat of force is given to the government on behalf of the authority and consent of the governed. If they continue to abuse it, then it's only on the governed to establish that change themselves. Either through political violence, or by changing the politicians / laws.
This is quite literally fascist rhetoric. Mattel & Disney quite famously made their debuts making antifa propaganda, that it was intentionally written by Michael Arndt that Barbie would say this, instead of Ken.
But again, the folks desiring to be governed in the first place do not comprehend the authoritarian exploitation Barbie enforced in the end of that movie.
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