America Doesn't Work That Way

It’s impossible to repress the powerful. It’s a lot of work to become powerful. The only thing that makes it worth the effort is that you can’t be repressed. You can, and I believe you should, challenge the powerful. I don’t care if it’s the guy you supported or the guy that somebody else supported, if they have the power, the best way you can support them is to challenge them if you think they’re mistaken.

Challenging the powerful doesn’t mean you hate the people who supported them and put them in power. It means you’re challenging what’s happening in the world around you, which everyone should do. Being powerful doesn’t mean your mistakes don’t matter.

The Son of God came to earth and said, “I am not here to rule but to serve.” There’s so much to that. A worthy leader serves more than he rules.

If the leaders don’t serve, then sometimes the weak rise up to challenge the powerful so much that the earth shakes. The last time Donald Trump was president, race riots swept across the United States. That hasn’t happened in a long time. It’s never happened at that level before.

His failure to lead or to serve in 2020 led his followers to idolize a boy who traveled from one state to another to murder protesters. Then he wept in court like the child he was. Some of you who fought so hard for Second Amendment rights may live to regret it. The most stringent gun laws ever passed in the country were when Ronald Reagan was Governor and the Black Panthers started to arm themselves in California. Those provisions have long since been wiped off the books because of the NRA. Now, you have a very large, very well-armed opposing party that has already demonstrated a willingness to stand up.

I firmly believe that had there been no Charlottesville, there never would have been any BLM riots. If the truly repressed people in this country believed the president was looking out for them, they would not have taken to the streets for justice. I’m sorry, but there are not “good people on both sides.”

I’ve known good leaders, and I’ve known bad leaders from both parties. There was a time in my life when I was very involved. Then, I wasn’t involved for a long time. As someone who has always had more privilege and more strength than he deserved, I believe it’s my duty to my God to speak as loudly as I can for the oppressed.

I’m sorry if you thought it’d be easy once you won the election. America doesn’t work that way. I would rather not have another Trump presidency end in riots, but from what I saw Sunday at the Superbowl (of all places), it could happen.

This time, the revolution will be televised.