Well-reasoned and supported statements about the corruptibility of human beings are done absolutely no favors by this kind of faux wisdom. You might as well stick to something people will recognize, like "absolute power corrupts absolutely," if you want to come off as edgy without actually contributing to the discussion.

Excess power is the root of this problem is it not?

It's reductionist, but our society is structured around the idea of limiting powers (ie violence) to prevent exploitation. Limiting law-enforcement power, for example via civil courts and not secret ones, as it has been done for a century before this decade, was very sufficient.

This is the end result of letting the state give itself more power at will, with a faux-democratic process to justify it.

I saw it more as stating the obvious to separate the wheat from the chaff. I have often problems getting stuck in tangents. Reminding myself of the simple realities alters my ways of thinking. Life is life. Simple stuff, but effective to meditate on. Life is life, nothing more, nothing less. We don't need to ascribe meaning to it that it does not have.

It's like the dark cave in Star Wars. It contains only what we bring with us.