American friends, looking on from Canada I am happy about yesterday's widespread peaceful protests against your incipient dictator. But why "No Kings"?
Here in Canada, many of us are quite happy to have a king -- our constitutional monarch, King Charles III, who recently visited Canada to open Parliament, as a gesture very much designed to show that we are different from the USA.
As an anarchist, I value having a Head of State who has zero coercive power.
But I am guessing that when you Americans think of kings, you have poor old George III in mind, and that trouble he gave you with taxation without representation and all that rot?
I am curious!
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That is precisely why Americans have had an antipathy toward kings. Enshrined in our constitution — and even then there were concerns that someone elected President would try to become a king. George Washington set the precedent for presidential behavior being distinctly un-king like.
@BiasForAction It's a pity that the un-king like behaviour wasn't codified in your constitution. Instead it gave so much power to the president that only convention limited their actions. But now you have one who doesn't give a fig for convention.
