Today we will watch the No Kings Day nationwide protests unfold. We will see if our elected officials really do care about what the American people want. Or if using us as the go-to excuse for doing the exact opposite of what we want continues to be politics as usual.
In the meantime, our history should be reviewed. The American Revolution took years to build into a rebellion. The abuses of a king eventually became unbearable to the people he was supposed to care for. He sent troops to burn towns. Arrest populations. To wreak havoc and mayhem among the people who only wanted fairness in taxation and freedom to determine their own destinies without oppression.
Ultimately, colonists saw the burning of Falmouth, ME (now Portland) as proof that their government had turned against them, and began to suggest they must declare independence.
About a month after the burning a prominent local citizen wrote to a friend that the destruction and threat to visit such ruin on other towns caused “everyone to risque his all in Support of his Liberties & privileges…the unheard of cruelties of the enemy have so effectually unified us that I believe there are not four persons now in Portsmouth who do not [oppose] the Tyranny of Great Britain.”
Sound familiar? Except now we’re seeing the population uniting against the tyranny of our own democratically-elected president who is trying to reclaim the title of King.
We the people will never allow this to happen. You shouldn’t either.
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