No Kings Day: Voices of the Revolution

No Kings Day – My Two Cents

Voices of the Revolution 

So, I’m seeing a lot of discourse about the No Kings protest, and I may as well throw out my two cents.

Positives:

– it gets people outside touching grass together

– it lets people know that there is sensible discourse that isn’t just all echo chambers and rage bait

– it creates a point where people could meet and grow into community organizing

– it lets people have an opportunity to do a little bit of action and maybe even step over that line of breaking a bit of the law and killing the cop in their head.

Negatives:

– Organizers are clearly using the energy for astroturf

– connected to some sketchy orgs that have made bad decisions toward how to handle a group this large

– doesn’t have any goals. Could lead to some action but isn’t driving it

– No Kings implies it’s not capitalism that is fucking everything up, and masks the root causes while subtly saying that just one more good election will get the Right People(tm) in this time

– uses measures like rsvp’s that create databases that can be hacked or tracked. No opsec, no plan to avoid surveillance in a state that has proven it’s a hair trigger away from calling everyone who goes a terrorist, allows for facial scanning of “the opposition” to train Israeli threat detection AI. Stingray cell towers, etc., etc., etc.

– it’s an undirected vent, and wastes the energy of the people that want change.

Now, if we had these every weekend or once a month, and they came with plans on how to gather in between for direct action or set up booths or tents to disseminate info or build signal chats and discords and affinity groups, there is some heat there. But letting the fuming masses pop their pressure valves for insta pics and tiktok reels and then go home until the next “spontaneous” rally isn’t a good look. There’s room for action, but the guys running the show aren’t actually interested in that.

Seth Hartley

Hi Seth. Thank you for sharing your “two cents” about the No Kings Day demonstrations. Your observations reflect many of the comments we heard at the demonstrations and raise a number of critical issues.

Here are the RNT collective’s “two cents” that expand upon two of your key statements.

The No Kings demonstrations created “a point where people could meet and grow into community organizing”. The American people are engaged in many separate battles, that often do not seem to be connected. Seth, we agree with you that the main take away from the No Kings marches is that our separate struggles are one, that we all have the same goal – a peaceful and just world.

No Kings implies it’s not capitalism that is fucking everything up, and masks the root causes while subtly saying that just one more good election will get the Right People(tm) in this time. We agree. Fascism in America is no longer a possibility, it is a reality. We are seeing the 1% of the population, the capitalist class – the people who own AI, the media, factories, banks, etc., – attacking the working class – the 99% who must sell our ability to work in order to live. The goal is the open terrorist dictatorship of the 99% by the 1%. Fascism does not take over a government, it destroys it! We cannot go back to the “old system”, we cannot “reform the government”! This is what the “guys running the show” did not tell us.

Seth, we are the only ones who can stop fascism. The 99% must have its own political party that can lead a revolution and build a world based on cooperation, where everyone has what they need and looks out for each other. If we join together to fight for the common good, we have a beautiful world to win.

No Kings Day showed us that we can do this, now we must do this!

Seth, thank you for adding your voice to the rising revolution.

The RNT Collective