People give their power away ALL THE TIME! Wear a high viz vest, pop a fancy dress constume on, and bingo suddenly you're directing traffic, arresting people or "in authority" and that little experiment you describe really highlights the problem.

It's what many in the truth movement call the "sheeple" effect and its all down to the ease with which people, along with popular opinion, can be herded into pens and prisons INSIDE their own minds as much as into queues, behind railings, or behind bars.

People think, completely erroneously that they have NO power to change things. And in giving up their power, they couldn't be more wrong!!!

People power is the only thing that has ever changed the world...we can, and should, do it again...and SOON!