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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It’s an issue with the US left, they use a different dictionary where words and phrases have different meanings.
Like “peaceful protest” to US leftist means the right to smash doors and windows, loot and set fire to police cars.
“Freedom of speech” to a US leftist is defined as the right to throw urine into the faces of the police. Or anyone’s face if you get in their way.
“democracy” likewise has a unique meaning for US leftist, probably taken from writings of Stalin himself. For leftist it means do what they say or they will make life miserable for everyone that doesn’t go along.
So “king” and “no king” to US leftist means that no one in heaven or on earth can tell them what to do, because their authority is above God’s. They the ones who say what goes.
@Heartlander Oh stop with the generalizations. If we do start generalizing, you can say the same kinds of things about US conservatives/Republicans. "Fake news" means actual news that they don't like. "Family values" means hating people who aren't heterosexual. "Christian" somehow does not include "love your neighbour as yourself". Etc.
