Viva la revolution!

The President attended a sporting event last night and was met with a mixture of cheers and boos. Accompanied with those boos was a chant of "lock him up" and "Impeach Trump" and for a moment, the public relished in expressing their disapproval of the current administration. The internet was on fire with video clips and short order stories, waxing the sentiment that a good majority of Americans are currently feeling. We have had enough. We are over-saturated with Donald Trump. We are exhausted of having to listen to his voice, see his face, or interact with his supporters. So a little bit of public humiliation is totally worth it for those of us in the general public that feel like he needs to be brought down a peg or two.

Then the morning news airs.

Then government elected officials voice their opinion.

Then social analysts and opinion editors draw a line in the sand.

Ultimately, the consensus is that the behavior of last nights events was un-American.

One reporter even went as far to say that it was fascist as well as un-American, because that is not who we as a people are.

And my take is this. We are not those people anymore. No matter who or what folks in the media want to refer to us as, or how badly Trump and his supporters want to "Make America Great Again" and take us back to some over-idealized point in time when America meant "meatloaf and mashed potatoes on Monday night. Dad brings home the bacon. And children prayed in school." We have never been those people. We've gone through far too much social and political change to remain being those people and I think that the media has forgotten what (or how) we change to become better than we were.

And this is totally just my opinion, because I for one didn't really spend too much time writing essays about revolutions or social upheaval, but change seldom comes with people "acting accordingly". This concept of turning the other cheek for the betterment of society is rooted in concepts of gentlemanly accord. Wars, fought face to face, are hardly discourses between gentlemen. They are the people who are told to believe one way or another and to hate the opposition. And much to his credit, Trump has clearly defined what is the opposition....anyone who disagrees with him or his administration. We can either fall in line or commit to civil obedience when it comes to formal impeachment processes or voting him out of office.

But god forbid we mock the commander in chief when he is out in public amongst those who do not support his foolish ideals. We should behave as though we are above the war cries that empower his base at everyone of his hate rallies. We should behave in a manner that shows that we are civil and we believe in more than wanting him locked away in prison for the rest of his life. We should take the higher road so that we can teach our children that goodness always triumphs. We should be an example to the rest of the world, and not rely on military needs to overthrow a government. We should show respect.

Fuck that.

The French Revolution, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Revolution, our very own Revolutionary War, all relied on common acts of civil disobedience in order to bring down corrupt governments or monarchies that kept its people down. I am not suggesting that the American government, Trump or his administration, are holding the American people down or making them live life in despair, but to suggest that there are not similarities in the way Trump abuses his power is to turn a blind eye to every action that he has taken to get himself to the position he is in.

And he is not our king.
He is not our fuhrer.
He is not our Dear Leader.
And he is not God.

So if mad emperor decides to make a public appearance, with his wife and cronies, at any public event in which [The Public] is supposed to fain and fawn over him, because we are supposed to respect the office of the presidency, without question....I say who wrote those rules. We should be bigger than chanting "lock him up, lock him up" but as a community of like minds, we are tired of the hypocrisy. Yes....it is hypocritical to mock him for inciting chants of "lock her up" when the subject came to Hillary Clinton, but his rhetoric was not based anywhere in actual fact. When the public is given instance upon instance of disrespectful behavior, and disrespectful actions committed by the person who holds the highest office in the land, then we have the right to call out the emperor and tell him that he has no clothes on.

He needs to hear it on a regular basis.