"Donald Trump is not a king. He is a president, and in many ways, that is the problem.

Instead of worrying about going back to the age of kings, we should concern ourselves with forging a future where no single person—whether king or president—can claim the right to rule over millions. This means rejecting the increasingly authoritarian form of government we live under today and building something better—a society rooted in true self-determination, decentralized and non-hierarchical decision-making, and cooperative economics.

Only by dismantling the myths that uphold our political reality—benevolent leadership and freedom through electoral representation—can we begin to imagine something radically different. Like the movements that shut down the WTO in 1999 or occupied Wall Street in 2011, we need mass protest that doesn’t just reject Trump or any one president but confronts the entire system that concentrates power and pacifies the public with pageantry. Real democracy isn’t granted from above; it’s built and lived from below. A different world becomes possible, and inevitable, when people stop waiting for permission to lead themselves."

Via @anarchistagency

https://itsgoingdown.org/no-kings-how-about-no-presidents/