Since Mr. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president the new American Trumpeters have decried the unprecedented outpouring of discontent resulting from his election and subsequent actions against democracy.
They cry about the financial hardship placed on the merchant and government that is a crime by the protesters and who should be punished.
To these decriers I say remember December 16th 1773.
On this date the birth of American protest movement took place. An Oligarchy created a law that protected the importer of tea to the Americas. That company was owned by the King and many of the wealthy elite of England. The base lesson, oft forgotten by American conservatives, is that economic protest works for change.
It’s a matter of history. Examples threat their way through history of how an economic protest achieves change. Since the Boston Tea party we have been witness to these events. While this type of protest isn’t the first choice of action, it often comes as a last resort of the people to make their voices heard.
Our very liberty was born in protest, the King of England and Parliament became painfully aware of our dissatisfaction of our treatment by the royal government. Not heard nor represented we resorted to the only means to capture a governments attention.
What happens now? Americans are deeply divided by our current politics or so we are lead to believe. Many of the issues that Mr. Trump ran on are ideals held by the American populace regardless of political affiliation. Therefore it seems that we are not so divided.
What divide us is not the policies that the “conservative” party pushes for the Oligarchs but those that they ignore. Policies that are the will of the people. The change the Republicans are racing to pass congress isn’t what the public and the voters in this recent election wanted.
The voters wanted to leave Social Security and Medicare alone and to bring back American jobs. These are two of the biggest points in Mr. Trump’s rhetoric. In 1773 the Oligarchs were represented by the East India Company and the Tea Act of 1773
In 2017 the Oligarchs are represented by a mired of think tanks whose only mission is equal to that of the Tea Act. To protect the Oligarchs and their corporations while taxing the common man.