by S. Adam Manley
Hurray for Free Speech! Here are a few comments I’ve heard about the “No Kings” demonstration that took place at 5 Corners here in Essex Junction:
“After walking among the crowd yesterday, I began wondering who in the democrat machine came up with the King’s tag line for the movement they’re pushing. I then thought looking at the crowd, that the Milgram experiment results are correlated again in a significant number of regular folks are blindly following what they believe is authority, regardless of facts. Hunter’s laptop anyone? Legacy media is playing us all. Aren’t Democrats challenging anything they disagree with through our constitutional court system, so how is that being a king? That’s our democratic republic at work!” –George F.
“It’s like a club they can belong to no matter how ill-informed the mission is. Very Sad. Lonely and angry people.” -D.B.
“I went through there a little while ago. Some older woman was holding a sign that said ‘honk if you’re tired of this shit’ [sic]. An American flag on a pole was leaning against her, and it was deliberately touching the ground. And apparently the Islamo-Nazis involved in the ‘free Palestine’ movement are joining with the no kings baloney since Trump took away their cause.” -B.G.
Myself? I think Democrats and Republicans alike can agree we don’t want to be ruled by kings. After all, the forefathers of this nation fought the Revolutionary War to rid ourselves of rule by monarchy and institute the Representational Democracy. We have thrived for 250 years. I wonder if the folks who are sponsoring the rally don’t really want to be MAGA supporters, deep down inside?
But what are they really calling for? Throw away America itself? Replace our Representational Democracy with some sort of Socialist Utopia? Chuck Schumer, leader of the US Senate Minority, recently said “Rise Up, faithful Democrats!” on a nationally televised broadcast. Rise up against what, and do what, I wonder? Is this incitement to violence?
Their rhetoric does not make any sense. Where do they get their information? Bad information in, bad decisions out. The organizers and performers I saw at five corners have a lot of energy. But their agenda is a clown show!
Like one person rightly said about this situation: “We’ve got work to do”
PS: We’ll leave Jesus Christ out of this one. He was innocent, and lived about 2025 years ago. Who cares.