# I pit the SovCit movement... For a different reason **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-sovcit-movement-for-a-different-reason/980412 "2023-02-26T22:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-sovcit-movement-for-a-different-reason/980412/8 "2023-02-26T23:58:54Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > One thing that I find annoying/amusing is that if you spend just 10 seconds thinking about it, you’d realize that even if Sovereign Citizens were correct, it wouldn’t matter. Who cares if drivers’ licenses are unconstitutional, or if you can’t be prosecuted in a courtroom that has the wrong flag? (Both of which are wrong of course.) Even if you’re right, if the authorities don’t know better, it isn’t going to help you. Whether they are right or not, they have the power and you don’t, and you can feel as righteous as you want as they toss you in jail and/or confiscate your wealth. The fact is that in the real world, you either do what those in power tell you or face the consequences. The sovereign citizens’ unexamined premise is that everyone in the current government is totally faithful to the secret rules and entirely trustworthy regarding them. It’s not government that they misunderstand - it’s human nature; the idea that the people whom the SovCits claim have hijacked the machinery of society will immediately about-face if the right words are used is mindboggingly naive. We’d be better off calling them “Government-Worshippers” - it’s more accurate than Sovereign Citizen. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-sovcit-movement-for-a-different-reason/980412)._