“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion.”
— Noam Chomsky
They marched under one banner—No Kings—across over two thousand U.S. cities. The chants echoed: Democracy, not dynasty. People over billionaires.
And for a moment, it felt like something real. Unity. Purpose. A mass of people moving as one.
That matters.
But here’s the thing: marches don’t dethrone kings—votes do. Not the kind fed to us by billionaire media or corporate-funded parties. But the kind we carve out ourselves, with calloused hands and clear eyes.
Because if the system crowns kings disguised as candidates—red tie or blue tie—then we haven’t abolished royalty. We’ve just rebranded it.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about shaming the other half of the working class. The ones who didn’t show up. The ones who don’t trust any of it.
They aren’t the enemy. They’re the evidence.
Evidence of a rigged system that leaves most Americans disillusioned, exhausted, and priced out of participation.
“Transparency is for those who carry out public duties… Privacy is for everyone else.”
— Glenn Greenwald
Then here’s the catch: protest is ignition, not the engine. Activism fades. If you’re not moving toward real political power, the system just waits you out.
“A system unable to stop this must be very sick indeed.”
— Matt Taibbi
We’ve seen this before. In Occupy, in anti–Iraq War protests, in the George Floyd uprisings. They all said something important—but without sustained, organized follow-through, the system waited us out.
Protest is the ignition. Organization is the engine.
This moment is only a spark—unless we stop waiting for permission to lead ourselves.
No kings. No puppets. No more billionaires pulling the strings.
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