Check These Stats and Ask Why "No Kings" Was the preferred Slogan For the Protests.

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"It will be a hard pill for many Americans to swallow--the idea of doing with less so that big business can have more...Nothing that this nation, or any other nation, has done in modern economic history compares with the selling job that must be done to make people accept this reality.  Business Week 10-12-74". (A major bourgeois journal warns the capitalist class of the consequences of the Neo-liberal era)

Richard Mellor

A hint! It doesn't cast any light on the liberal democracy in which we live. It was not Kings that killed 3 million Vietnamese and over one million Iraq's.  A monarch or its King never overthrew the democratic governments of Chile, Guatemala and Iran,  they were overthrown by the most famous liberal democracy of all, the United States.

The slogan also doesn't offend the liberals, the labor hierarchy and most importantly, their allies  in the Democratic Party that all three see as their best hope for a return to the status quo which is: 

A continued gradual decline in workers living standards, a more humane deportation program, no mention of US meddling in Central and Latin America, the Middle East and everywhere else, (Mexico is in North America folks). A strong offence budget, a real plan to stop China from outcompeting US capitalism in the marketplace of the world,  a fair, free market regulated health insurance program. The market works best when it is guided by the visible hand of regulators and just plain American common sense; it is this that will rescue us from climate catastrophe. We need to return to our values. might makes right and profit is sacrosanct. 

There is no such things as Gun's and Butter any more, though there never really was. The New Deal was not a new deal for everyone, neither was the so-called American Dream. The near collapse of capitalism in the 1930's was prevented through a global war and the deaths of some 57 million people.

I had these copied a few months ago for something I was intending to write and never did. They might be off a bit but are basically very revealing. It's quite clear what the average US citizen wants. But US capitalism and its two parties cannot deliver it.

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Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults currently agree with the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties do “such a poor job” of representing the American people that “a third major party is needed.”  Gallup

 

According to a Gallup survey released Monday, 62 percent of Americans now say that the federal government should ensure that all Americans have health coverage, Dec 2024

 

 Nearly four times as many voters

support increasing public transportation funding as support reducing it. 

70 percent of respondents agree that “providing people with more transportation options is better for our health, safety, and economy than building more highways.” 

Data show that these kinds of investors bought almost 1 in 4 homes sold in 2021. (private equity and corporate property management firms. The results reflect Americans’ broad concern about housing costs. Rents have reached all-time highs in the U.S., with half of renters spending 30% or more of their income on rent and one- quarter spending more than 50%. 

 

82% of Americans want the government to make housing more affordable PEW

Two-thirds of Americans prioritize developing alternative energy sources, like wind and solar About three-quarters of Americans support a U.S. role in global efforts to address climate change Pew

The federal minimum wage was last raised in 2009 to $7.25 per hour. Since then, consumer prices have increased by 45% — including a 49% increase in medical care prices, a 51% increase in food prices, and a 67% increase in rental housing prices. Nonetheless, the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged in those 15 years.