Would you argue that dumping tea into the harbor is an act of outrage?
the question is, what is the 21st century version of dumping tea into the harbor?
we are long overdue.
Unfortunately the establishment has not gotten the message so I fear it will escalate.
What message? Impotent rage against "the establishment" isn't a message, it has no goal but catharsis.
People who elected Trump because they wanted to see damage to the system are getting it. Trump has humiliated the US, disgraced the office, made himself a laughingstock to the entire world and destroyed the world's confidence in us as a superpower. They get to see him rage at liberals and leftists and judges and the intelligence community and vent his spleen at everything Fox News told him was terrible with the world that particular night.
But what else did they expect? They elected a man who was not competent, who didn't necessarily share their beliefs, and who was no less an establishment figure (in being a globalist billionaire rich old white man) than anyone else. Did they think having this bull break some china in the Oval Office would lead to anarchy? Dissolution of the Union? what?
And what would they escalate to? A literal ass?
Those Trump voters are getting what they wanted... monocles have dropped and pearls have been clutched and lulz have been had. I don't understand why they wouldn't be happy. If they wanted their particular grievances against the system remedied, they would have elected someone capable of doing so. But they only wanted to see an old man piss the rug on the White House, so... fine.
I do think there's some truth in this. The structure of elections in the USA guarantees a two party system. Votes for third parties are just another kind of impotent rage since the two party system makes third party victory nearly impossible. Both major parties are so big and so entrenched that they're resistant to change, bureaucratically inbred, and beholden to massive sources of campaign cash.
It's difficult to have sympathy for people who feel disenfranchised from the political process, and who protest that process by choosing sabotage it to no specific end. Particularly when other groups who have been historically more directly harmed by the government have managed to succeed in creating progressive change, albeit slowly and at personal risk, and from the ground up. If Trump supporters care that little, then they should just stay home next time. After all, nothing they do can possibly matter, can it?
I'm not sure if "What message?" is willful ignorance or disdain for the platform, but it's surely not a useful rhetorical device, if you are unable or unwilling to go look at Trump's campaign promises and try to understand why people might want the things he promised, it's not worthwhile for you to try to engage in a debate about it.
I do have lots of disdain for Trump as a person, though. Everyone should, his supporters most of all.
Now good day to you, sir or madam jerkstate.
My question was about the original Boston Tea Party. Can we claim our country was founded on outrage?