{"id":2588,"date":"2025-11-20T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:30:58","slug":"affluent-white-revolutionaries-take-to-the-streets-to-fight-for-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservativeproletariat.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"Affluent White Revolutionaries Take To The Streets To Fight For The Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Reid Fitzsimons (note an edited version of his article appeared in the American Thinker on-line magazine: https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2025\/11\/at_2025_11_17.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Oct. 18, 2025 a second round of anti-Trump demonstrations under the banner \u201cNo Kings\u201d occurred throughout the US, with several million participants in total. Whether they are pampered hippies (or wannabe hippies) long past their sell-by date desperately trying to relive their youth or intrepid defenders of democracy, No Kings is an interesting phenomenon that warrants a closer look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Older lady with pink hair at the June 2025 No Kings protest; Elderly people at No Kings protest<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

First,<\/strong> who are these people? While I can\u2019t find any actual demographic surveys, by reviewing multiple photos from a variety of locations, it is immediately apparent that No Kings is a thing of white people, even overwhelmingly so. Similarly the typical age seems to begin in middle-age and extend to the geriatric population. According to Axios News, the typical DC attendee was an educated white woman in her 40s. Not surprisingly, approximately 73% of all wealth in the US is currently owned by Americans over the age of 55, especially those born between 1946 and 1964, with whites holding a disproportionate amount, perhaps 85% . I posit that the demographics of the No Kings attendees likely reflects listeners of National Public Radio: approx. 85% white, 56% female, about 75% over the age of 35 and 41% over the age of 55; 70% of NPR listeners have at least a bachelor's degree and the median household income of NPR listeners is $115,000. They are \u201cmore likely to spend money on travel<\/a>, books, fitness, and they own financial securities, signaling that they have disposable income,\u201d according to Market Engenuity (an NPR associated organization).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Average NPR listener (see https:\/\/www.weku.org\/npr-listener-demographics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Second<\/strong>, what do they actually want, or don\u2019t want? The short answer is they want whatever Trump doesn\u2019t and oppose everything he does. Ostensibly they object to a monarchical form of government, but \u201cNo Kings,\u201d while emotionally appealing to some as a slogan, is never really defined: perhaps an appropriate characterization of a king is found in the 1975 movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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King of the Britons (How do you know he's a king? He hasn't got sh*t all over him)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s possible, in a lucid moment, a No Kings protester might say they are against rule by decree, which does<\/em> exist in the form of Presidential executive orders (EOs). For example, in 2014 then President Barack Obama, frustrated he couldn\u2019t persuade congress to pass laws consistent with his agenda, made an impressively king-like statement \u201cI\u2019ve got a pen and I\u2019ve got a phone.\u201d In other words, he bypassed the Constitutional process via issuing EO. It\u2019s important to note EOs have been used by all Presidents beginning with George Washington, and vary from the silly (Bill Clinton establishing May 20th<\/sup> as \"National Clean Up Your Room Day\" in 1994) to virtue signaling (Jimmy Carter establishing March as \u201cWomen\u2019s History Month\u201d) to those with seriously, and even global ramifications, such as Obama\u2019s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known infamously for delivering $100s of millions in cash to Iran in unmarked cargo planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In theory, EOs are not<\/em> law and can be rescinded by succeeding Presidents, as Trump did with the JCPOA. To some extent EOs are issued under the philosophy of \u201cit\u2019s easier to ask for forgiveness later than permission now,\u201d with the hope one President\u2019s orders will be upheld as law by courts when later challenged (Obama\u2019s 2012 immigration order- DACA- is a current example). It\u2019s reasonable to say that the No Kings protesters are okay with Presidential decrees that suit their agendas, but screech No Kings!! when they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, but not surprisingly, the No Kings movement, under the guise of \u201cdefending democracy,\u201d protest against democratically passed laws they don\u2019t like. For example the horribly named \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d included some restrictions on SNAP (food stamps), including work\/education requirements for able-bodied adults of 20 hours per week, with multiple exceptions, such as parents and the elderly. Another provision allows states to limit the type of items that can be purchased, most notably soda and chips, which happen to be the #one and #two items purchased with food stamps (between 40 and 60% of items bought using SNAP are considered junk food, amounting to about $50 billion a year). A reasonable person (or, in No Kings parlance, a Nazi racist hate-filled fascist) might think limiting SNAP purchases to foods considered healthy is a good thing all around, but the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d was Trump\u2019s bill so everything in it must be opposed by those demanding No Kings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left:<\/strong> Allowed and disallowed food stamp list Right:<\/strong> Items commonly bought with SNAP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Third, <\/strong>the psycho-social implications of the No Kings are worth discussion. Conservative columnist Sarah Rumpf offered some insights in an Oct. 25th<\/sup> article. She quoted Manhattan psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert: \"No Kings protests were a snapshot of an era when emotional catharsis and civic activism have begun to blur. What we\u2019re seeing is a kind of group therapy playing out in the streets. The No Kings Movement allows people to feel belonging and community. Sharing grievances with like-minded people feels good...\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll add that mass protesting is simply fun, like a tailgate party with a sense righteousness. The No Kings demographic have a difficult challenge: to maintain their wealth, privilege, and social standing at the same time appearing (to themselves and others) altruistic. In other words, materialism- large houses (perhaps summer and winter homes), nice cars, sizable portfolios, fine dining, fine wines, exotic vacations- must somehow be merged with the impression of empathy and concern. Attending protests, having social justice yard signs, and expressing contempt (along with insults) to those they view as deplorable- activities that require little effort and little financial outlay- meet the requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local No Kings protest (Montrose, PA)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A number of interviews were shown on conservative media with No Kings protesters who said truly vile things: a moment of fame owing to their hatefulness. I imagine, however, many of the protesters are perfectly okay people, some of whom I\u2019ve been friends with for decades and know them to be decent. The caveat is perfectly decent people can become obsessed with protecting their own interests, not just financial and social, but the very perception of who they are, at least in their own minds. At some level they understand they largely owe their affluence and and ego-identity to the status quo, leading to the fourth <\/strong>consideration- fear of any alteration in the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well-crafted and thoughtful anti-Trump items available at Amazon (forgive the profanity)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over many decades we developed an economic, cultural, and political comfort zone that has proven lucrative for many people by having government, using lots of fictional money (the national debt has exceeded $38 trillion), pay for things that please us, and acknowledging reality is frightening. At a low level, measured in mere $billions, are entities like NPR and PBS, which provide an echo chamber for the No Kings mentality: free entertainment and and affirmation for the wealthy. That the funding for this was stopped by Trump caused outrage: something that has been part of the status quo for decades- a source of fun and feeling of sophistication for the elite- has been, for the moment at least, defunded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On pretty much any issue any proposed change to what is <\/em>makes the No Kings participants livid. Innumerable government programs amounting to $100\u2019s of billions- \u201cgreen\u201d funding, \u201chealth care,\u201d USAID, grants to universities, NGOs and \u201cnon-profits,\u201d and on and on- ultimately, if you are willing to look just a little below the surface, are mostly transfers of money to wealthy and connected people and institutions. Somewhere among the massive amounts might actually be something of benefit, at least enough for public relations campaigns, but unaccountability, and arrogance, and entitlement reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left:<\/strong> Several defendants in the Minn. \"Feeding Our Future\" $250 million \"non-profit\" fraud Right<\/strong>: FL Congresswoman Sheila McCormick (on the right) recently indicted for $5 million in FEMA-related fraud<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In many ways the political establishment is similar to corrupt televangelists, who promise riches and salvation for a \"donation.\u201d Politicians, however, finance their Utopian promises through other people\u2019s money...and money that exists only in the ether. Platitudes can be very seductive to those who so badly want to believe- the No Kings people for example. But in reality they engage in compassion by proxy, the kind of compassion that requires no real personal effort, expense, or even inconvenience. This has become the status quo, and in hopes of keeping it going, the No Kings crowd has taken it to the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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