Inaugaration Day

I hate the government, almost anyone that knows me will openly admit that (I'm sure the NSA could confirm). I'm also fairly open about not liking Donald Trump (although I dislike him less than I dislike Hillary Clinton). That doesn't mean for a second that I can or will support the idiocy that is going on in Washington and around the country today.

There is a difference between a protest and a riot. Protests are a meaningful and sometimes effective way to redress your government. Rosa Parks was protesting when she refused to move to the back of the bus, MLK led many peaceful protests that didn't involve destroying property, even Ghandi protested peacefully. Riots are not an act of protest, they are an act of violence and are a crime, setting cars on fire and breaking store windows are not a protest! Acts of vandalism undermine the message you are trying to deliver, if you want to be heard (which is usually the reason for a protest) you shouldn't be making enemies out of the people whose attention you want. The whole point of a protest is to bring your grievances to a wider audience to GAIN support for your message. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see how setting a car on fire is a big winner of political support, especially from a set of people that are supposedly priding themselves in being "tolerant".  Is it just me or do SJW's only believe in tolerance to people that aren't straight white men? Trump hasn't even been president for 12 hours yet and for some reason they seem to think the antichrist has come to rule the world.

This brings me to the other point of this post and I want to stress this to people on both sides of the party lines. Something I want people to realize while their political party is in power. Government NEVER willfully returns power, it only grows bigger, and only when we the citizens ALLOW it, either by our choices or our ignorance. After 9-11 who was it begging for Bush to "do something".... it was the citizens, and what did we get? The patriot act, NSA, TSA, and tons of other freedom sucking agencies. We were duped into giving the government more power in return for "our safety" we are no safer today, but the government has grown exponentially. Allowing Obama to abuse executive orders and go above and beyond his constitutional power unchecked has also grown government power (its not just the R's in this case). The point I'm trying to make here is whatever power you grant "your president" will eventually make it to "not my president" so before you cheer and pony up as much power as you can to president "fill in the blank" remember that that EXACT SAME POWER will be turned on you in 4-8 years. The only reason people are as scared of Trump as they are, is because they have allowed the presidential power to grow unchecked for so long that he is now treated more as  dictator than as a part of the republic. We have watched presidents skip over congressional approval to push whatever agenda they want without any concern for the power granted to them.

I won't deny that Trump is an idiot, but that idiot wants to keep the peace in the rest of the world, he wants to have diplomacy with Russia, he wants to free up trade, and he wants to try to keep jobs in the US. How can we as a nation be against that? Rather than protest like a bunch of cry babies, maybe its time to put on the big boy pants and accept that he is the next president. Deal with him for the next 4 years because you are not changing it, and if you keep acting like a bunch of pissed off savages you'll end up with him for another 8 years.